I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, BUT that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the LORD. YOU were bought at a PRICE, DO NOT become slaves of men. BROTHERS, each man, as a responsible to GOD should remain in the situation GOD called him to… 1Corinthians 7: 35, 23-24.
YOU then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in CHRIST JESUS. And the things YOU have heard me say in the PRESENCE of many witnesses entrust to RELIABLE men WHO will also be QUALIFIED to TEACH others. ENDURE HARDSHIP with us like a good SOLDIER OF CHRIST JESUS. NO one serving as a SOLDIER gets involved in CIVILIAN affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. SIMILARLY, if anyone competes as an ATHLETE, he does not receive the VICTOR'S CROWN unless he competes ACCORDING to the RULES. 2 Timothy 2:1- 5 

 DO NOT CONFORM any longer to the PATTERN of this world, BUT be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of your MIND. THEN you will be able to TEST and APPROVE what GOD’S WILL is- HIS GOOD, PLEASING AND PERFECT WILL. FOR by the GRACE given me I say to everyone of you: DO NOT THINK of yourself more highly than you ought, BUT rather think of yourself with SOBER JUDGEMENT, in accordance with the MEASURE OF FAITH GOD HAS GIVEN YOU. Romans 12:2-3.

THEREFORE, my dear brothers, STAND FIRM, let nothing move you. ALWAYS give yourselves FULLY to the WORK OF THE LORD, because you know that your LABOUR in the LORD is not in vain.   1Corinthians15:58