the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies. 008:019 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness. 008:020 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us. 008:021 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 008:022 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you. 008:023 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ. 008:024 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf. 009:001 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints, 009:002 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. 009:003 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, 009:004 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting. 009:005 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. 009:006 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 009:007 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. 009:008 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. 009:009 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever."{Psalm 112:9} 009:010 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; 009:011 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God. 009:012 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God; 009:013 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all; 009:014 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. 009:015 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift! 010:001 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you. 010:002 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh. 010:003 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh; 010:004 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, 010:005 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; 010:006 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full. 010:007 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's. 010:008 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed, 010:009 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. 010:010 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised." 010:011 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present. 010:012 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. 010:013 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. 010:014 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ, 010:015 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence, 010:016 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done. 010:017 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24} 010:018 For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends. 011:001 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. 011:002 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 011:003 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 011:004 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough. 011:005 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles. 011:006 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things. 011:007 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge? 011:008 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you. 011:009 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. 011:010 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 011:011 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows. 011:012 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we. 011:013 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles. 011:014 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 011:015 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. 011:016 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. 011:017 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 011:018 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. 011:019 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. 011:020 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face. 011:021 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 011:022 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I. 011:023 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 011:024 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 011:025 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 011:026 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 011:027 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. 011:028 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 011:029 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation? 011:030 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. 011:031 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie. 011:032 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me. 011:033 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands. 012:001 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 012:002 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven. 012:003 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows), 012:004 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 012:005 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. 012:006 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me. 012:007 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. 012:008 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 012:009 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. 012:010 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong. 012:011 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. 012:012 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works. 012:013 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong. 012:014 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 012:015 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? 012:016 But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception. 012:017 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you? 012:018 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps? 012:019 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying. 012:020 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots; 012:021 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed. 013:001 This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word established."{Deuteronomy 19:15} 013:002 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare; 013:003 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you. 013:004 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you. 013:005 Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. 013:006 But I hope that you will know that we aren't disqualified. 013:007 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate. 013:008 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 013:009 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting. 013:010 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down. 013:011 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. 013:012 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 013:013 All the saints greet you. 013:014 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen. Book 48 Galatians 001:001 Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), 001:002 and all the brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: 001:003 Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, 001:004 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father— 001:005 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 001:006 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news"; 001:007 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. 001:008 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. 001:009 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed. 001:010 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ. 001:011 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. 001:012 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. 001:013 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it. 001:014 I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 001:015 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace, 001:016 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood, 001:017 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus. 001:018 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. 001:019 But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord's brother. 001:020 Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying. 001:021 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 001:022 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ, 001:023 but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy." 001:024 And they glorified God in me. 002:001 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. 002:002 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. 002:003 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 002:004 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; 002:005 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you. 002:006 But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, 002:007 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision 002:008 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles); 002:009 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. 002:010 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do. 002:011 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. 002:012 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 002:013 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 002:014 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? 002:015 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, 002:016 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. 002:017 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not! 002:018 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. 002:019 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. 002:020 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. 002:021 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!" 003:001 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified? 003:002 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 003:003 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? 003:004 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? 003:005 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 003:006 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness." 003:007 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham. 003:008 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."{Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18} 003:009 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. 003:010 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."{Deuteronomy 27:26} 003:011 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4} 003:012 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."{Leviticus 18:5} 003:013 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23} 003:014 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 003:015 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. 003:016 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed,"{Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7} which is Christ. 003:017 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. 003:018 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. 003:019 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. 003:020 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. 003:021 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. 003:022 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 003:023 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 003:024 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 003:025 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 003:026 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. 003:027 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 003:028 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 003:029 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise. 004:001 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; 004:002 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. 004:003 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. 004:004 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, 004:005 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. 004:006 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba,{Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for "Father" or "Daddy" used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.} Father!" 004:007 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. 004:008 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. 004:009 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? 004:010 You observe days, months, seasons, and years. 004:011 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you. 004:012 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong, 004:013 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. 004:014 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 004:015 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. 004:016 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? 004:017 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. 004:018 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you. 004:019 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you— 004:020 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. 004:021 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law? 004:022 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. 004:023 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. 004:024 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. 004:025 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. 004:026 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 004:027 For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."{Isaiah 54:1} 004:028 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 004:029 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 004:030 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."{Genesis 21:10} 004:031 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman. 005:001 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 005:002 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. 005:003 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 005:004 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace. 005:005 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. 005:006 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love. 005:007 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth? 005:008 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 005:009 A little yeast grows through the whole lump. 005:010 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. 005:011 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed. 005:012 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off. 005:013 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. 005:014 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18} 005:015 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another. 005:016 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. 005:017 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire. 005:018 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 005:019 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 005:020 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 005:021 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 005:022 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,{or, faithfulness} 005:023 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 005:024 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 005:025 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit. 005:026 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another. 006:001 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted. 006:002 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 006:003 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 006:004 But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor. 006:005 For each man will bear his own burden. 006:006 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches. 006:007 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 006:008 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 006:009 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up. 006:010 So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith. 006:011 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand. 006:012 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 006:013 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. 006:014 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 006:015 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. 006:016 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel. 006:017 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body. 006:018 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. Book 49 Ephesians 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: 001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; 001:004 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love; 001:005 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, 001:006 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, 001:007 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 001:008 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 001:009 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him 001:010 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him; 001:011 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will; 001:012 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: 001:013 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 001:014 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory. 001:015 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints, 001:016 don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, 001:017 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; 001:018 having the eyes of your hearts{TR reads "understanding" instead of "hearts"} enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 001:019 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might 001:020 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, 001:021 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. 001:022 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, 001:023 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. 002:001 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, 002:002 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; 002:003 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 002:004 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 002:005 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 002:006 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 002:007 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; 002:008 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 002:009 not of works, that no one would boast. 002:010 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. 002:011 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands); 002:012 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 002:013 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 002:014 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, 002:015 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; 002:016 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. 002:017 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. 002:018 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 002:019 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, 002:020 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; 002:021 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 002:022 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. 003:001 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, 003:002 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you; 003:003 how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words, 003:004 by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ; 003:005 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; 003:006 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News, 003:007 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. 003:008 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 003:009 and to make all men see what is the administration{TR reads "fellowship" instead of "administration"} of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ; 003:010 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places, 003:011 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord; 003:012 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him. 003:013 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory. 003:014 For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 003:015 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 003:016 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; 003:017 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 003:018 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 003:019 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 003:020 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 003:021 to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. 004:001 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, 004:002 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; 004:003 being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 004:004 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; 004:005 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 004:006 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all. 004:007 But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 004:008 Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."{Psalm 68:18} 004:009 Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? 004:010 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. 004:011 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds{or, pastors} and teachers; 004:012 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; 004:013 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 004:014 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; 004:015 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; 004:016 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love. 004:017 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 004:018 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; 004:019 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 004:020 But you did not learn Christ that way; 004:021 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: 004:022 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 004:023 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 004:024 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 004:025 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another. 004:026 "Be angry, and don't sin."{Psalm 4:4} Don't let the sun go down on your wrath, 004:027 neither give place to the devil. 004:028 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need. 004:029 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. 004:030 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 004:031 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. 004:032 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. 005:001 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 005:002 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. 005:003 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; 005:004 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks. 005:005 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. 005:006 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 005:007 Therefore don't be partakers with them. 005:008 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, 005:009 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, 005:010 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. 005:011 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. 005:012 For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. 005:013 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light. 005:014 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 005:015 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; 005:016 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 005:017 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 005:018 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, 005:019 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in your heart to the Lord; 005:020 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; 005:021 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. 005:022 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 005:023 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. 005:024 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. 005:025 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; 005:026 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 005:027 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 005:028 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 005:029 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; 005:030 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. 005:031 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."{Genesis 2:24} 005:032 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. 005:033 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. 006:001 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 006:002 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: 006:003 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."{Deuteronomy 5:16} 006:004 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 006:005 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; 006:006 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 006:007 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men; 006:008 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. 006:009 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. 006:010 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. 006:011 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 006:012 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 006:013 Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. 006:014 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 006:015 and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace; 006:016 above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. 006:017 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the spoken word of God; 006:018 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints: 006:019 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, 006:020 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. 006:021 But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things; 006:022 whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts. 006:023 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 006:024 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen. Book 50 Philippians 001:001 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers{or, superintendents, or bishops} and servants{Or, deacons}: 001:002 Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:003 I thank my God whenever I remember you, 001:004 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy, 001:005 for your partnership{The word translated "partnership" (koinonia) also means "fellowship" and "sharing."} in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; 001:006 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. 001:007 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace. 001:008 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. 001:009 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; 001:010 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ; 001:011 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. 001:012 Now I desire to have you know, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News; 001:013 so that it became evident to the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ; 001:014 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear. 001:015 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will. 001:016 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains; 001:017 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News. 001:018 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice. 001:019 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 001:020 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. 001:021 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 001:022 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't make known what I will choose. 001:023 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. 001:024 Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake. 001:025 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith, 001:026 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again. 001:027 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News; 001:028 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God. 001:029 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf, 001:030 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me. 002:001 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, 002:002 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; 002:003 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; 002:004 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. 002:005 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, 002:006 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, 002:007 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 002:008 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. 002:009 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; 002:010 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, 002:011 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 002:012 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 002:013 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. 002:014 Do all things without murmurings and disputes, 002:015 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, 002:016 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain. 002:017 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all. 002:018 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me. 002:019 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. 002:020 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. 002:021 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. 002:022 But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News. 002:023 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me. 002:024 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly. 002:025 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need; 002:026 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick. 002:027 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. 002:028 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 002:029 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor, 002:030 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me. 003:001 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. 003:002 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision. 003:003 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; 003:004 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 003:005 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 003:006 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. 003:007 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. 003:008 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ 003:009 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 003:010 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death; 003:011 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 003:012 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 003:013 Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 003:014 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 003:015 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. 003:016 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind. 003:017 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example. 003:018 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, 003:019 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. 003:020 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 003:021 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself. 004:001 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. 004:002 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. 004:003 Yes, I beg you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. 004:004 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice! 004:005 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 004:006 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. 004:007 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. 004:008 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. 004:009 The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you. 004:010 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity. 004:011 Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. 004:012 I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. 004:013 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. 004:014 However you did well that you shared in my affliction. 004:015 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only. 004:016 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need. 004:017 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account. 004:018 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God. 004:019 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. 004:020 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen. 004:021 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. 004:022 All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar's household. 004:023 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Book 51 Colossians 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 001:002 to the saints and faithful brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:003 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 001:004 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints, 001:005 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News, 001:006 which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; 001:007 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, 001:008 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. 001:009 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 001:010 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 001:011 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy; 001:012 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; 001:013 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; 001:014 in whom we have our redemption,{TR adds "through his blood,"} the forgiveness of our sins; 001:015 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 001:016 For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. 001:017 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together. 001:018 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 001:019 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him; 001:020 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross. 001:021 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, 001:022 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him, 001:023 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant. 001:024 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly; 001:025 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God, 001:026 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints, 001:027 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory; 001:028 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus; 001:029 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily. 002:001 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; 002:002 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, 002:003 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. 002:004 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. 002:005 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. 002:006 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, 002:007 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. 002:008 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. 002:009 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, 002:010 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power; 002:011 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; 002:012 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 002:013 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 002:014 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; 002:015 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 002:016 Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, 002:017 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's. 002:018 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 002:019 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth. 002:020 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, 002:021 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" 002:022 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 002:023 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. 003:001 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. 003:002 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. 003:003 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 003:004 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory. 003:005 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 003:006 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 003:007 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; 003:008 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth. 003:009 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, 003:010 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator, 003:011 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all. 003:012 Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; 003:013 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. 003:014 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection. 003:015 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. 003:016 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. 003:017 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him. 003:018 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 003:019 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them. 003:020 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. 003:021 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged. 003:022 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. 003:023 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 003:024 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. 003:025 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality. 004:001 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. 004:002 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; 004:003 praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds; 004:004 that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. 004:005 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. 004:006 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. 004:007 All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord. 004:008 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts, 004:009 together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here. 004:010 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to you, receive him"), 004:011 and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, men who have been a comfort to me. 004:012 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 004:013 For I testify about him, that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis. 004:014 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you. 004:015 Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house. 004:016 When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea. 004:017 Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it." 004:018 The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. Book 52 1 Thessalonians 001:001 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:002 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers, 001:003 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. 001:004 We know, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} loved by God, that you are chosen, 001:005 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake. 001:006 You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, 001:007 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. 001:008 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything. 001:009 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, 001:010 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. 002:001 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain, 002:002 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict. 002:003 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception. 002:004 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts. 002:005 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), 002:006 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. 002:007 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. 002:008 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. 002:009 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God. 002:010 You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe. 002:011 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, 002:012 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory. 002:013 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe. 002:014 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews; 002:015 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men; 002:016 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost. 002:017 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire, 002:018 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again— but Satan hindered us. 002:019 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} at his coming? 002:020 For you are our glory and our joy. 003:001 Therefore, when we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, 003:002 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith; 003:003 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. 003:004 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know. 003:005 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain. 003:006 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you; 003:007 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. 003:008 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 003:009 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God; 003:010 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? 003:011 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you; 003:012 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you, 003:013 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. 004:001 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. 004:002 For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 004:003 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, 004:004 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 004:005 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God; 004:006 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. 004:007 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 004:008 Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. 004:009 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, 004:010 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; 004:011 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you; 004:012 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. 004:013 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 004:014 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 004:015 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. 004:016 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, 004:017 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. 004:018 Therefore comfort one another with these words. 005:001 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. 005:002 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. 005:003 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape. 005:004 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. 005:005 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness, 005:006 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober. 005:007 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. 005:008 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 005:009 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 005:010 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 005:011 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. 005:012 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, 005:013 and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves. 005:014 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all. 005:015 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all. 005:016 Rejoice always. 005:017 Pray without ceasing. 005:018 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. 005:019 Don't quench the Spirit. 005:020 Don't despise prophesies. 005:021 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. 005:022 Abstain from every form of evil. 005:023 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 005:024 He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it. 005:025 Brothers, pray for us. 005:026 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. 005:027 I solemnly charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers. 005:028 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Book 53 2 Thessalonians 001:001 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: 001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:003 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds; 001:004 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. 001:005 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer. 001:006 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, 001:007 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 001:008 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, 001:009 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 001:010 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day. 001:011 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power; 001:012 that the name of our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 002:001 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you 002:002 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come. 002:003 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, 002:004 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. 002:005 Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things? 002:006 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 002:007 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. 002:008 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming; 002:009 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 002:010 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 002:011 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; 002:012 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 002:013 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; 002:014 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 002:015 So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter. 002:016 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 002:017 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word. 003:001 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you; 003:002 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith. 003:003 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one. 003:004 We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command. 003:005 May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. 003:006 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. 003:007 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you, 003:008 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you; 003:009 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us. 003:010 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat." 003:011 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies. 003:012 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 003:013 But you, brothers, don't be weary in doing well. 003:014 If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. 003:015 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 003:016 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all. 003:017 The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write. 003:018 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Book 54 1 Timothy 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; 001:002 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 001:003 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine, 001:004 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith— 001:005 but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith; 001:006 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking; 001:007 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm. 001:008 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, 001:009 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 001:010 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine; 001:011 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. 001:012 And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service; 001:013 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 001:014 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 001:015 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. 001:016 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life. 001:017 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. 001:018 This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare; 001:019 holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith; 001:020 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme. 002:001 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: 002:002 for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence. 002:003 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; 002:004 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. 002:005 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 002:006 who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times; 002:007 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 002:008 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting. 002:009 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; 002:010 but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works. 002:011 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. 002:012 But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness. 002:013 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 002:014 Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience; 002:015 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety. 003:001 This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer{or, superintendents, or bishops}, he desires a good work. 003:002 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; 003:003 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; 003:004 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; 003:005 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?) 003:006 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. 003:007 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil. 003:008 Servants{or, Deacons.}, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money; 003:009 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 003:010 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve{or, serve as deacons} if they are blameless. 003:011 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. 003:012 Let servants{or, deacons} be husbands of one wife, ruling their