And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them; O generations of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

for I did not shrink to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

I do not write these things shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children.

that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you.

But we intreat you, brethren, to know those who are laboring among you, and standing before you in the Lord, and admonishing you;

In all

for I will give to you mouth and wisdom, which all who are opposed to you will not be able to gainsay nor resist.

But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought:

and consider the longsuffering of the Lord's salvation; as our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom which was given unto him has written unto you;

We may

in the body of his cross through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreprovable before him,

For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God: for I espoused you to one husband, to present you a pure virgin to Christ;

in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless.

Perfect

and you are complete in him, who is the head of all government and authority:

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God was made unto us wisdom, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

unto the perfection of the saints, in the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ:

For by one offering he has forever perfected the sanctified.

in every good thing to do his will, doing that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory unto the age of the ages. Amen.