“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world — grumblings (goggysmoi, murmurings, echoing Israel's wilderness complaints) and disputes (dialogismoi, reasonings, inner doubts) are purged. 'Blameless and innocent' (amemptos kai akeraios, unblemished and unmixed) are terms from purity law, now applied spiritually. 'Children of God' (tekna theou) asserts their adopted status; 'without blemish' (amomos) echoes sacrificial language (Levitical spotlessness). The contrast with the 'crooked generation' is stark: they are cosmic counterculture.
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