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33 Instead, the most important thing you should be concerned about is to let God completely direct your life, and to strive to live righteously. If you do that, all the things that you need will be given to you {God will give you all the things that you need}.

18 If wicked people earn a lot of money, that will deceive them because they will not keep it for very long,

but those who do what is right will surely be rewarded by God forever.

21 Those who always try to act in a fair and kind way toward others

will live a long time and be honored/respected.

3 Doing what is right and fair is more acceptable to Yahweh

than bringing sacrifices to him.

2 People always think that what they do is right,

but Yahweh judges our ◄motives/reasons for doing things► [MTY].

2 Money that you get by doing dishonest/wicked things will really not benefit you;

but by living righteously you will live for ◄a long time/many years►.

21 You must believe that even though Jesus never sinned, God punished him for all the sinful things that people do, just as if Jesus had done those sinful things himself. And because of our close relationship with Christ, God has erased the record of our sins/declared us no longer guilty for our sins.

God very kindly sent Jesus Christ to earth in order that God might save all people and God graciously trains us to behave in a godly manner.

11 The believers should behave in a good manner, since God did for us what we did not deserve, sending Jesus Christ to earth in order that he might save all people [PRS]. 12 God teaches/tells us [PRS] how to stop doing what he dislikes, and to stop desiring the things that ◄ungodly people/people who habitually do things that do not please God► desire [MTY]. He wants us to control our behavior and to do what is right and to do what pleases him while we live in this present age/time.

11 But as for you, who are a man who serves God, ◄keep completely away from such love of money/do not be like the people who love money►. Decide that you will do what is right, and that you will ◄be godly/do what pleases God►. Decide that you will trust God, and that you will love others. Endure difficult circumstances. Always be gentle with people.

Continually think about everything that is good and praiseworthy. Continually practice whatever you have learned from me. As a result, God will be with you and give you inner peace.

8 My fellow believers, there is one more thing I want you to do. Whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is right, whatever is morally pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is admirable, whatever is good, whatever deserves praise, those are the things that you should continually think about.

We should not tire of doing good, but instead, we should do good to everyone, especially to believers.

7 You should not deceive yourselves. Remember that God is never outwitted {no one ever fools God}. Just like a farmer will reap exactly the kind of crop that he plants [MET], God will reward people according to what they have done [MET].

9 But we should not ◄tire of/become discouraged while► doing what pleases God, because eventually, at the time that God has determined, we will receive a reward [MET], if we do not stop doing the good things that we have been doing.

18 Those who act peaceably toward others cause others to also act peaceably, with the result that they all live together acting toward each other in a righteous way [MET].

16 So, because the Lord is able to heal the sick and to forgive sins, tell each other the sinful things that you have done, and pray for each other in order that you may be healed {that God may heal you} physically and spiritually. If righteous people pray and ask fervently for God to do something, God will certainly do it in a powerful way.

8 Come near spiritually to God, and as a result he will come near to you. You who are sinners, stop doing what is wrong, and do only what is good [SYN, MET]. You who cannot decide whether you will ◄commit yourselves to God/obey God completely►, stop thinking wrong thoughts, and think only pure thoughts [MTY].

28 That will happen because Yahweh likes to see people doing what is just,

and he will never forsake righteous/godly people.

He will protect them forever;

but he will get rid of the children of wicked people.

15 Yahweh [MTY] carefully watches over those who act righteously;

he always responds [MTY] to them when they call to him for help.

6 Righteous people will not be overwhelmed/worried/distressed because of their troubles,

and they will never be forgotten by other people.

The people God is pleased with

1 God is pleased with those who do not do what [MET] wicked people advise them to do,

and who do not imitate the behavior of [MET] sinful people,

and who do not join in with people who ◄ridicule/sneer at► God.

10 I try to serve you with my entire inner being;

do not allow me to ◄wander away from obeying/disobey► ◄your commands/what you have commanded►.

Because God is not influenced by a person’s status, he will pay back each person according to what that person has done.

6 God will pay back everyone according to what they deserve for what they have done.

15 Make sure that none of you does evil things to anyone who has done evil to you. On the contrary, you must always try to do good things for each other (OR, to fellow believers) and to everyone else.

14 But even if you suffer because of doing what is right, God will bless you. Do as Isaiah wrote: "Do not be afraid of people who ◄threaten you/say things to cause you to be afraid of what they might do to you►, and do not worry about [DOU] what they might do to you."

33 If you do good things only for those who do good things for you, do not expect God to reward you for doing that [RHQ], because even sinners do that.

25 You should think carefully before you solemnly promise to dedicate something to God,

because later you might be sorry you have promised to do it.