Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.