TSK · Philippians 2:15

His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children– this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

Zion’s Future Splendor“Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the LORD shines on you!

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Persecution of Disciples“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Live in Love Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

Conclusion Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And these also must be tested first and then let them serve as deacons if they are found blameless.

So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don’t let anyone look down on you.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.