So that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ — dokimadzō (test, approve) implies active discrimination between good and better, not passive acceptance. 'What is excellent' (ta diapheronta) are the things that excel, the superlatives of Christian conduct. 'Pure and blameless' (eilikrineis kai aproskopoi) recalls purity language from Greek ethics but applies it to the resurrection day. The eschatological horizon ('day of Christ') transforms present ethics into preparations for final judgment.

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