O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,

These things recommend and teach.

that you read the epistle from Laodicea. give Archippus this instruction from me, take care to discharge the function, you

Without

that he himself might make her appear illustrious to his own eye, a church without spot, or any thing like a defect; so as to be holy and irreprehensible.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the holy spirit offered himself a spotless victim to God, purify our souls from deadly sins, to serve the living God?

but by the precious blood of Christ, who is the lamb without spot, and without blemish:

since then, my dear brethren, your expectations are such, take care to appear before him, without any defect or blemish, in order to be happy; and be persuaded,

Unrebukeable

that you may be without reproach, the inoffensive spotless children of God in the midst of a depraved and perverse generation (among whom you should shine as stars in the world,

through his own death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable in his own sight:

Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and make you appear in his glorious presence, without defect, and full of joy:

Until

and God will confirm you to the end, that ye may be unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

he who has begun this good work in you will bring it to perfection against the appearance of Christ. it is but just

that by the sanctity of your affections, you may stand unreprov'd in the presence of God our father, when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come with all his holy angels.

Now may the God of peace make you intirely holy: may every part of you, your spirit, soul, and body be preserved irreprovable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we conjure you, brethren, that with respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being assembled with him,

I conjure you in the name of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is to judge the living and the dead, at his appearance in his kingdom,

in expectation of that desirable happiness, the glorious appearance of the supreme God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ,

so Christ being once offered up to take away the sins of many; he shall appear the second time, without making any further expiation to save those who expect him.

that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:

beloved, we are now the sons of God, tho' it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know, that when this change shall be, his immediate presence will give us a divine resemblance.

See! he is coming on the clouds; and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him: then all the tribes of the earth will smite their breasts at the sight: even so it will be.