⁸ First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

¹⁹ For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

⁴ I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;

³ I give praise to my God at every memory of you,

¹⁷ But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

¹¹ If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

⁵ You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

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.

⁸ For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

⁹ For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

³ We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,

¹¹ Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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

²¹ To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.

¹⁵ For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints,

²⁸ And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.

¹ Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.