Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

Similarly good works are also obvious, and the ones that are not cannot remain hidden.

As I stared ¹  I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, ²  and wild birds. ³ 

God chose ¹  what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

Go ¹  instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

He ¹  will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison. ¹ 

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

Each of you should be concerned ¹  not only ²  about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well. ³ 

Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made ¹  of gold, silver, ²  bronze, stone, and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

They ¹  do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries ²  wide and their tassels ³  long.

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up ¹  all things in Christ – the things in heaven ²  and the things on earth. ³ 

In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

They left their nets immediately and followed him. ¹ 

He ¹  will reward ²  each one according to his works: ³ 

for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, ¹  whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him.