Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath;

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to impart to him that has need.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for the supplying of the need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanks-giving.

Do not, therefore, become partakers with them;

Look, therefore, carefully, how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

For this reason, be not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

And be not drunken with wine, in which is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

that He might present to Himself the assembly, glorious, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and without blemish.

And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

with good-will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

because to us the struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

but the other proclaim Christ of contention, not sincerely, thinking to add tribulation to my bonds.

But if it be to live in flesh, this is to me a fruit of labor; and what I shall choose I know not;

but to you it was granted as a favor in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but in His behalf to suffer also;

not looking each to his own things, but each also to the things of others.

Who, existing originally in the form of God, accounted it not a prize to he equal with God.

So then, my beloved, as ye always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.

for all are seeking their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Yet I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need;

For, in fact, he was sick, near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you to me, indeed, is not irksome, while for you it is safe.

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith in Christ??he righteousness which is of God by faith:

Not that I already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before.

Not that I am speaking in respect of want; for I learned in whatsoever circumstances I am, to be content.

because even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my need.

Not that I am seeking for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that abounds to your account.

But my God will liberally supply all your need according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, cease not praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

if, at least, ye continue in the faith, founded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I am having for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

that their hearts may he comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ,

Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;

in Whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

and not holding fast the Head from Whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

"Handle not, taste not, touch not,"

Which things, having, indeed, a show of wisdom, in will-worship, humility, and severe treatment of the body, are not of any value, against the indulgence of the flesh.

Keep thinking of the things above, not of the things on the earth,

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter toward them.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be disheartened.

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.

Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;

because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake.

For from you has sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so that we have no need to speak anything;

For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it has not become vain;

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not only the Gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

And, for this reason, we also give thanks to God without ceasing, that, having received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which also is working in you who believe.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

But we, brethren, having been bereft of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face, with great desire.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect the deficiencies in your faith?

not in passion of desire, even as the gentiles, who know not God;

that he go not beyond and gain an advantage over his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we also told you before, and solemnly testified.

For God did not call us unto uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore, indeed, he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, Who giveth His Holy Spirit to you.

But concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that one write to you; for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and that ye may have need of nothing.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those falling asleep, that ye sorrow not even as the rest who have no hope;

But, concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written to you;

for ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief at night.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief;

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness.

So, then, let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night.

because God did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Quench not the Spirit.

Despise not prophesyings;

awarding vengeance to those who know not God, and to those who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus;

that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of the Lord has set in.

Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed??he son of perdition;

Do ye not remember that, when I was yet with you, I was wont to tell you these things?

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

that they all may be judged, who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have the faith.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the instruction which ye received from us.

For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;

nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;

not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a model to you, that ye might imitate us.

For, even when we were with you, this we commanded you, "If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat."

For we hear of some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, who work not at all, but are busybodies.

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.

And, if anyone obey not our word through this letter, note this one, not to associate with him, that he may be ashamed.

And regard him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

As I exhorted you to continue in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that you might charge certain ones not to teach a different doctrine,

knowing this, that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for lawless and unruly ones, for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for patricides, and matricides, for man-slayers,

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered up to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of gentiles in faith and truth.

in like manner, that women adorn themselves in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety, not with braided hair, and gold, or pearls, or costly raiment,

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into transgression.

not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,