As we look at the instructions and admonitions given by Paul, it is essential that we keep in mind God's work for us, in us, and through us and how that is manifest - these are not things for us to do, as much as it is our working on our relationship with God in Christ, in cooperation with the Holy Spirit - that we would remain in God by obeying His commands and that we (are able, or even, get to) do this because the Holy Spirit empowers and enables us to do so... .... broken pieces, brought together by God's gracious and skillful hands to make something beautiful.