because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.