¹⁸ In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

²⁰ Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

⁶ Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

¹⁵ Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.

¹⁵ Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:

¹ <Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went.> I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

² So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

³ For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

¹⁷ And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.