Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision by those who style themselves the Circumcised--their circumcision being one which the knife has effected.

You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.

Therefore I entreat you not to lose heart in the midst of my sufferings on your behalf, for they bring you honour.

Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children.

Therefore do not become sharers with them.

Therefore be very careful how you live and act. Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise.

Therefore put on the complete armour of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground on the day of battle, and, having fought to the end, to remain victors on the field.

Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth and putting on the breastplate of uprightness