that Christ may dwell in your hearts through the faith, you being founded and established in love,

that you may be able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length, and depth and height,

and to know the love of Christ which exceeds knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

To him that is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, by the power which operates in us,

But this, that he ascended, what is it but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

He that descended is the same also that ascended above all heavens, that he might fill all [places].

that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles,

This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,

Let him that has stolen steal no more, but rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he may have to give to him that needs.

Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

See then that you walk discreetly, not as unwise but as wise,

that he might sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word,

that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless.

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

But do you also, individually, each one so love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the husband.

that it may be well with you, and you shall live long in the land.

knowing that whatever good each one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a freeman.

And, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening, knowing also that their master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil;

Take therefore the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all to stand.

and for me, that a word may be given me at the opening of my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,

in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds, that I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.

But that you may also know the things concerning me, how I do, Tichycus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will inform you of all things;

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that you may know the things concerning us and that he may comfort your hearts.

having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding,

that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ,

But I wish you to know, brothers, that the things as to me have resulted in the advancement of the gospel,

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the Praetorium and in all other places,

in Sawyer]those from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel,

for I know that this will result in salvation to me, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

And fully believing this, I know that I shall continue, and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of the faith,

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my coming again to you.

Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

fulfil my joy, that you have the same mind, having the same love, sympathizing with each other, having one opinion.

that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth,

and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs.

But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

and I hope in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

for he greatly desired you all and was anxious, because you heard that he was sick.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him again you may rejoice and I be less sorrowful.

because on account of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly for his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.

But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ

and be found in him, not having my righteousness by the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by the faith,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

that I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

For many walk, of whom I told you often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began again to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no opportunity [to serve me].

Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.

I endure all things with him that strengthens me.

And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;

Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to your account.

which is present with you as also in all the world, and is fruitful and increases, as also with you, from the day that you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all that is pleasing [to him], being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

and he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things,

for in him [God] was well pleased that all fullness should dwell,

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

that your hearts may be comforted, being united in love and [raised] to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God,

But I say this that no one may mislead you with persuasive words.

See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's.

and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,

Fathers, be not fault-finding with your children, that they be not discouraged.

knowing that you will receive from the Lord the recompense of the inheritance. You serve Christ the Lord;

for he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no respect of persons.

Masters, render to your servants what is just and equal, knowing also that you have a master in heaven.

praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a door of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am bound,

that I may declare it plainly, as I ought to speak.

Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that he may know your affairs and comfort your hearts,

Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For I bear him witness that he has great zeal for you and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

And when this letter has been read with you, cause that it be also read by the church of the Laodiceans; and do you also read that from Laodicea.

that our gospel came not to you in word only, but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with full assurance, as you know what we were among you for your sakes.

so that you became an example to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

For from you the word of the Lord was proclaimed not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith with respect to God went into every place, so that we had no need to say any thing;

For you know, brothers, our introduction to you that it was not in vain,

For you remember, brothers, our labor and weariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

You are witnesses, and God, how piously, and righteously, and blamelessly we were with you that believe,

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that receiving the word of God heard from us, you received not a word of men, but, as it is in truth, a word of God, who also works in you that believe.

forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always; and the wrath has come on them to the utmost.

that no one should be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this;

for indeed when we came to you, we told you before that we were about to suffer affliction, as it also happened, and you know.

But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we also you,

FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor,

that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified.

He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.

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

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