So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.

你们要谨慎行事，不要像愚昧人，当像智慧人。

你们要谨慎行事，不要像无知的人，要像智慧的人。

你们要谨慎行事，不要像无知的人，要像智慧的人。

因此，你们要注意自己的生活，不要像愚昧人，要像有智慧的人。

所以，你们行事为人要谨慎，不要像愚昧人，却要像聪明人。

所以，你们要仔细察看怎样行事为人，不要像没有智慧的人，而要像有智慧的人；

你們要謹慎行事，不要像愚昧人，當像智慧人。

你們要謹慎行事，不要像無知的人，要像智慧的人。

你們要謹慎行事，不要像無知的人，要像智慧的人。

因此，你們要注意自己的生活，不要像愚昧人，要像有智慧的人。

所以，你們行事為人要謹慎，不要像愚昧人，卻要像聰明人。

所以要仔細留意、你們怎樣地行；不要做無智慧的，總要做有智慧的人。

所以，你們要仔細察看怎樣行事為人，不要像沒有智慧的人，而要像有智慧的人；

慎顧爾行、勿若無智、乃若有智、

慎所爾行、勿效無智、思齊有智、

慎爾所行、勿效無智者、宜效智者、

是以爾當小心翼翼、勿效無智、思齊有智。

Be very careful, then, how you live— not as unwise but as wise,

So be very careful how you live. Do not live like people who aren’t wise. Live like people who are wise.

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk— not as unwise people but as wise—

So then, be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise,

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk— not as unwise people but as wise—

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Therefore be very careful how you live– not as unwise but as wise,

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

Live wisely among those who are not believers, and make the most of every opportunity.

The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves.

If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.

But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

Above all, you must live as citizens of heaven, conducting yourselves in a manner worthy of the Good News about Christ. Then, whether I come and see you again or only hear about you, I will know that you are standing together with one spirit and one purpose, fighting together for the faith, which is the Good News.

Dear brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your understanding of these things. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature in understanding matters of this kind.

“ Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said,“ No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.”

So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.

Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven!

Pilate saw that he wasn’t getting anywhere and that a riot was developing. So he sent for a bowl of water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying,“ I am innocent of this man’s blood. The responsibility is yours!”

Then Jesus said to them,“ You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.

You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart.

Then Jesus said to him,“ Don’t tell anyone about this. Instead, go to the priest and let him examine you. Take along the offering required in the law of Moses for those who have been healed of leprosy. This will be a public testimony that you have been cleansed.”

How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?

But Job replied,“ You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.

“ I have sinned,” he declared,“ for I have betrayed an innocent man.”“ What do we care?” they retorted.“ That’s your problem.”

But after he had taken the census, David’s conscience began to bother him. And he said to the Lord,“ I have sinned greatly by taking this census. Please forgive my guilt, Lord, for doing this foolish thing.”

See that no one pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to each other and to all people.

“ Pay close attention to all my instructions. You must not call on the name of any other gods. Do not even speak their names.

Oh, foolish Galatians! Who has cast an evil spell on you? For the meaning of Jesus Christ’s death was made as clear to you as if you had seen a picture of his death on the cross.

So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

I was so foolish and ignorant— I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you.