for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

I have no one else like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.

Let those of us who are mature have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you.

who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice!

And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

And my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

For this reason also, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

so that you will live a life worthy of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they will become discouraged.

knowing that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

For he who does wrong will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Tychicus will tell you all about my affairs. He is a beloved brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.

and with him Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of yourselves. They will tell you everything that has taken place here.

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a servant of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anyone.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

While people are saying, "Peace and safety," then destruction will come upon them suddenly as labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with him.

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

He who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.

This is evidence of God's righteous judgment, so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,

Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders,

For this reason God sends upon them a strong delusion so that they will believe what is false,

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will continue to do the things which we command.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If anyone will not work, he shall not eat."

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

But women will be saved through the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-restraint.

He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

if I am delayed, you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,

If you point out these things to the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in them, for if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

which he will bring about at the proper timehe who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

And the things you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

Here is a trustworthy saying: if we died with him, we will also live with him;

if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;

Avoid godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

If anyone cleanses himself from what is ignoble, he will be a vessel for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God will grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires,

and will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

In the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him for his deeds.

The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

namely, if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, and his children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild or rebellious.

and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who reject the truth.

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

and not to steal, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in everything they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will pay it backnot to mention that you owe me even your own self.

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you"? And again, "I will be a father to him and he shall be a son to me"?

they will perish, but you remain; they will all grow old like a garment,

you will roll them up like a mantle; and like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end."

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

while God also bore witness, by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his own will.

saying, "I will declare your name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."

And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Here am I, and the children God has given me."

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear his voice,

while it is said, "Today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.

And this we will do, if God permits.

saying, "I will surely bless you and multiply you."

Those who formerly became priests took their office without an oath, but he became a priest with an oath through the One who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'"

For he finds fault with them when he says: "The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For where a will is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.

For a will is in force only when somebody has died, since it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation to those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."

then he said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.