For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things.

That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and acknowledged by all men:

Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God;

And we all, shown as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, with the face uncovered, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Spirit of the Lord.

For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also to have been made manifest to your consciences.

For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

Ye are not contracted in us, but ye are contracted in your bowels.

And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.

I speak not to condemnation: for I have said before, ye are in our hearts to die together, and live together.

And his bowels are more abundantly to you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and tremor ye received him.

Let such a one reckon this, that, such as we are in the word by the epistles, being away, such also, being present, in deed.

No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.

Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they Abraham's seed? I also.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

For also if he was crucified from weakness, but he lives from the power of God. For also we are weak in him, but we live with him from the power of God to you.

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?

And I hope that ye shall know that we are not untried.

For we are not able anything against the truth, but for the truth.

I wonder that so quickly are ye transferred from him having called you by the grace of Christ to another good news:

Which is not another; except some are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of Christ.

Are ye so unwise? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now completed in the flesh?

Know ye therefore that they of faith, these are sons of Abraham.

So that they of faith are praised with faithful Abraham.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it has been written, Cursed every one who remains not in all written in the book of the law to do them.

And faith having come, we are no more under a preceptor.

For we are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor free, there is neither male and female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if ye of Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.

Which things are spoken figuratively: for these are the two covenants; one truly from mount Sinai, begetting to bondage, which is Agar.

And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise.

Therefore, brethren, we are not children of the bondmaid, but of the free.

Ye were neglected from Christ, whoever are justified in the law; ye have fallen from grace.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do.

And if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God:

For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,

Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the holy, and the household of God;

In whom also ye are builded together for the dwelling of God in the Spirit.

Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.

For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

And all things refuted, by light are made manifest: for everything made manifest is light.

Making purchase of time, for the days are evil.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

For we are the circumcision, serving God in spirit, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh.

Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you.

As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power:

Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ.

Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?

Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.

For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?

For ye are our glory and joy.

For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.

And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you.

Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.

For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.

Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.

For, for this also we are wearied and reproached, that we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, chiefly of the faithful.

Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment; and also to some they follow in the train.

Likewise also the good works of some are manifest; and having these otherwise, it cannot be hid.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed.

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out.

Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

For of these are they going into houses, and taking captive little women heaped up with sins, led away with various eager desires,

For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision:

All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.

Faithful the word, and I wish for thee to be assured of these things, that they having believed God might turn their thoughts to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

For we have much grace and consolation upon thy love, for the bowels of the holy are refreshed by thee, brother.

And, Thou, at the beginning, Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands:

Are they not all spirits qualified for service, sent forth for service for them about to inherit salvation?

And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.

For he of whom these things are said partook of another tribe, of which none held to the altar.

And they truly are become many priests, by reason of death being hindered from remaining:

Which a parable for the time placed in, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are brought near, not being able for consciousness to perfect him serving;

And almost all things are purified according to the law with blood; and without blood-letting there is no remission.

Farther back, saying, That sacrifice and bringing in and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou wouldest not, neither wert contented with; which are brought in according to law;

In which will we are consecrated by the bringing in of the body of Jesus Christ once.

And we are not of drawing down to perdition; but of faith to the acquisition of the soul.

According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

And if ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye spurious, not sons.

for of whom the blood of the living ones is brought for sin into the holies by the chief priest, the bodies of these are burned without the camp.

Behold also ships, being so great, and driven by hard winds, are led by the smallest rudder, wherever the desire of him steering should will.

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members