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Moreover, when you are exerting yourselves with energy and fervour, whatever you do, whether labouring diligently in prayer, fasting, or almsgiving, or distributing to the poor, or forgiving injuries, "as God also for Christ's sake hath forgiven us," 1 or subduing evil habits, and chastening the body and bringing it into subjection, 2 or bearing tribulation, and especially bearing with one another in love (for what can he bear who is not patient with his brother?), or guarding against the craft and wiles of the tempter, and by the shield of faith averting and extinguishing his fiery darts, 3 or "singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts," or with voices in harmony with your hearts; 4 --whatever you do, I say, "do all to the glory of God," 5 who "worketh all in all," 6 and be so "fervent in Spirit" 7 that your "soul may make her boast in the Lord." 8 Such is the course of those who walk in the "straight way," whose "eyes are ever upon the Lord, for He shall pluck their feet out of the net." 9 Such a course is neither interrupted by business, nor benumbed by leisure, neither boisterous nor languid, neither presumptuous nor desponding, neither reckless nor supine. "These things do, and the God of peace shall be with you." 10
