AND in those days the disciples being multiplied, there was a complaint of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were neglected in the daily service.

And this was done for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

And sending two that served him into Macedonia, Timothy and Erastus, he continued a time in Asia.

And from Miletus sending to Ephesus he called for the elders of the church.

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness.

should I go to Spain I will come to you; for I hope, going by, to see you, and to be sent forward by you there, when first I am in part filled with you.

Having therefore performed this, and sealed to them this service, I will go by you to Spain;

AND I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a minister of the church in Cenchrea,

For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church.

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest judge;

But if Christ is preached that he was raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

And may he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating multiply your grain, and increase the products of your righteousness;

only they heard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which he formerly destroyed;

But before the faith came, we were kept shut up under the law for the faith to be revealed.

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

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

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

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine,

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.

but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men,

I wish also that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputations;

The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, circumspect, faithful in all things.

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. read more. And confessedly great is the mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.

But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons, [misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose consciences are cauterized, read more. who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with thanksgiving;

for bodily exercise profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise of the present life and of the life to come.

Till I come attend to reading, exhortation, teaching.

Support the widows who are widows indeed.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine on account of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

For we brought nothing into the world; it is clear that we can carry nothing out of it;

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Charge the rich in the present life not to be high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us all things richly to enjoy,

to Timothy my beloved son. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace given us in Christ Jesus from eternity,

who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

The cloak which I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring, and the books, especially the parchments.

Erastus remained at Corinth, and Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you, if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination. read more. For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth.

not by works of righteousness which we did but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

The word is true, and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For these things are honorable and useful to men. But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

When I send you Artemas, or Tychicus, make haste to come to me at Nicopolis; for there I have determined to spend the winter.

When I send you Artemas, or Tychicus, make haste to come to me at Nicopolis; for there I have determined to spend the winter.

But at the same time also prepare me a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be given to you.

Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and rains on the just and unjust.

And those with Paul, sailing from Paphos, went to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

AND after some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return and visit the brothers in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, [and see] how they do. And Barnabas wished to take with them John called Mark; read more. but Paul thought not best to take with them one who deserted them at Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work. And there was a sharp contention, so that they separated from each other; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed to Cyprus. But Paul choosing Silas went out, commended to the favor of the Lord by the brothers.

declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,??esus Christ our Lord,??5 through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

We are embassadors therefore for Christ, as though God besought you by us; we pray you, for Christ, be reconciled to God.

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine,

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service,

For which cause I admonish you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the imposition of my hands.

But you have followed my instruction,??ode of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,

Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers, salute you.