If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

and cancelled the obligation we were under by ritual decrees, which was grievous to us, and hath taken it quite away, even nailing it to his cross.

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.

Let the ruling principle in your hearts be Christ's peace, for in becoming members of one body you have been called under its sway. And you must be thankful.

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

to live lives [of honor, moral courage, and personal integrity] worthy of the God who [saves you and] calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

But brothers, after we were separated from you for a short time --- in person but not in spirit --- we became all the more eager [to come to you] and strongly desired to see you in person. [Note: The word "separated" here denotes the traumatic experience of a child being forcibly removed from its parents. It had been about six months since Paul left Thessalonica under adverse circumstances].

and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage you concerning your faith,

Thus, my brethren, your conduct has given us great consolation, under all our persecutions and distress.

We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.

Under all circumstances give thanks to God. For this is his will for you as made known in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, we speak of you with pride among the churches of God for your steadfastness [your unflinching endurance, and patience] and your firm faith in the midst of all the persecution and [crushing] distress which you endure.

At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.

you would not by any pretended revelation, by any discourse or epistle ascrib'd to us, be immediately perplex'd in your minds, or under any concern for the approach of the day of the Lord.

the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?

even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,

That is why God places them under the influence of a delusion, to cause them to believe a lie;

in order that all may come under judgement who have refused to believe the truth and have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

You are not to treat him as an enemy, but to put him under discipline, as a brother.

Now may the Lord of peace Himself grant you His peace at all times and in every way [that peace and spiritual well-being that comes to those who walk with Him, regardless of life’s circumstances]. The Lord be with you all.

desiring to be teachers of law, though under standing neither what they say nor of what they boldly affirm.

Let a woman quietly take the place of a learner and be under authority.

He must manage his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity [keeping them respectful and well-behaved]

He ought not to be a new convert, for fear he should be blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the Devil.

let them be first examin'd, and if they are without reproach, let them enter upon their office.

Undoubtedly the mystery of our religion is a great wonder: "He was made visible in human form; He was vindicated by the Spirit; He was seen by angels; He was proclaimed among the heathen; He was trusted in throughout the world; He was taken up to glory."

Any one who fails to provide for his own relations, and especially for those under his own roof, has disowned the Faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

But you should exclude the younger widows from the list; for, when they grow restive under the yoke of the Christ, they want to marry,

for which they are much to be condemn'd, because they violate the engagements they had before enter'd into:

Against an elder receive none accusation: but under two or three witnesses.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

For love of money is the root of all the evils, and in their eagerness to get rich, some men wander away from the faith and pierce themselves to the heart with many a pang.

Enter the great contest of faith! Take hold of eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the great profession of faith.

I give thee charge in the sight of God, which quickeneth all things, and before Jesus Christ, which under Pontius Pilate witnessed a good witnessing,

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

In meekness, bringing under discipline them that oppose themselves, lest at any time God should give them repentance unto a personal knowledge of truth,

For, of these, are they who enter into the houses, and captivate silly women, women laden with sins, led on by manifold covetings,

Everything that is written under divine inspiration is helpful for teaching, for refuting error, for giving guidance, and for training others in righteousness;

and will turn their ears away from the truth and will wander off into myths and man-made fictions [and will accept the unacceptable].

Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

For there are many disorderly persons vainly talkative, and under a spirit of delusion, especially some of the circumcised;

To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;

Putting us under discipline - in order that, - denying ourselves of ungodliness and worldly covetings, in a soberminded and righteous and godly manner, we should live, in the present age,

Make clear to them that they are to put themselves under rulers and authorities, to do what they are ordered, to be ready for every good work,

to be forbearing, and under all circumstances to show a gentle spirit in dealing with others, whoever they may be.

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

that, having been pronounced righteous through his loving-kindness, we might enter on our inheritance with the hope of Immortal Life.

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.

Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure, but might be a voluntary one.

I Paul give it under my own hand, I will repay it; not to say, that you owe your very self to me.

But of which of the angels has he said at any time, Take your seat at my right hand till I put all those who are against you under your feet?

while God continued to confirm their testimony with signs, marvels, and various sorts of wonder-works, and with gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed in accordance with His will.

For he did not put the coming world we are talking about under the control of angels.

Thou madest Him for a little while inferior to the angels; with glory and honor hast thou crowned Him, and hast set Him over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,"

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death.

The fact that he himself suffered under temptation enables him to help those who are tempted.

Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it really all who came out of Egypt under Moses?

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.

For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he saith thus in a certain place, of the seventh day, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works: And in this again, They shall not enter into my rest.

And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

but that which bears thorns and briars, is look'd upon as lying under a curse; whose end will be to be burnt.

Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath,

This hope [this confident assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it]—a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells],

whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age.

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

and that he was appointed, not under a Law regulating only earthly matters, but by virtue of a life beyond the reach of death;

and indeed we wanted an high priest of such a character, one that is holy, innocent, undefiled, one that is separated from sinful men, and exalted above the heavens; one who was under no necessity,

who, unlike other High Priests, is not under the necessity of offering up sacrifices day after day, first for His own sins, and afterwards for those of the people; for this latter thing He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

who worship under the representation and shadow of heavenly things; as Moses was ordered by God, when he was about to finish the tabernacle. For see, saith He, that thou make all according to the model shewn thee in the mount.

over the ark were the cherubims of glory covering the propitiatory with their wings, of which we cannot now enter into a particular detail.

Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the services;

but only the high priest could enter the inner part, and he but once a year, and never without taking some victim's blood, to offer on his own behalf and for the sins committed through ignorance by the people.

since, with foods and drinks and various [ceremonial] washings, they are only outward regulations imposed until the time when everything would be made right [i.e., under the New Agreement].

But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary,

neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

In fact under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness [neither release from sin and its guilt, nor cancellation of the merited punishment].

for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;

First come the words-- 'Thou dost not desire, nor dost thou take pleasure in, sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin' (offerings regularly made under the Law),

(offerings regularly made under the law), and then it is added, Lo, I come to do thy will, he does away with the first, in order that he may establish the second.

And indeed every priest under the law standeth daily ministring, and frequently offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

waiting from that time onward until His enemies be put as a footstool under His feet.