But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Take care that none of you ever return evil for evil, but always pursue what is kind to one another and to all.

But try all, holding fast to the good.

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

But the Lord is faithful; he will stablish you and guard you from the Evil One.

I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

But you, brothers, must not grow weary in well-doing.

and yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

but he must remember that the Law is not enacted for a good man, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the irreligious and sinful, for the godless and profane, for parricides and murderers,

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

but (as becomes women proclaiming godliness) with the ornament of good deeds.

I allow no woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man; but let her keep quiet.

And it was not Adam who was deceived; but it was the woman who was thoroughly deceived, and who became involved in transgression.

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

no drinker or brawler; but forbearing, peaceable, and no money-lover;

Let deacons be the husband of but one wife, men who rule their children and their household properly.

For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

But she who lives in wantonness is dead even while she still lives.

But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

But exclude from the list the younger widows; for where they have become wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

Moreover, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and are not only idlers, but gossips also, and busybodies, repeating things they ought not.

Do not continue to drink nothing but water, but take a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent attacks of illness.

Some men's sins are notorious, and lead them straight on the way to condemnation; but others' sins follow them up.

he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

But you, O servant of God, flee from these things, and run after integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, gentleness.

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who provides all things richly for our use.

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power and of love and of self-control.

He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have fully believed, and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day.

But when he came to Rome he sought for me until he found me.

But God's message is no prisoner. That is why I endure everything for the sake of the chosen, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

but avoid profane babble; for people will go farther and farther in impiety,

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for noble, some for ignoble uses.

Flee from the passions of youth, but run after righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who out of a pure heart call upon the Lord.

The Lord's slave must not quarrel, but must be kind to all men; a skilful teacher, patient of wrong.

But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come.

and led captive by ever-changing impulses, are always learning but never able to arrive at knowledge of truth.

But they will not get on; for their folly will be made as openly manifest to all as was that of Jannes and Jambres.

But you, Timothy, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aims, my faith, patience, love, endurance,

But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

But do you hold fast what you have learned and have held to be true. You know those from whom you have learned it,

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.

But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

When you come, bring the cloak I left in Troas with Carpus; also my books, but especially my parchments.

but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour.

but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.

All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they disown him; in that they are detestable, disobedient, and reprobate for good work of any sort.

But do you, on your part, speak what becomes sound teaching;

that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.

not to contradict nor pilfer, but to exhibit praiseworthy trustworthiness in every thing, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

they must speak evil of none, they must not be quarrelsome, but gentle, showing perfect meekness toward all.

But when the kindness of God our Saviour, And his love toward men shined forth,

He saved us, not because of any deeds that we had done in righteousness, But because of his own pity for us. He saved us by that washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit

But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and dissensions and wranglings about the law; for these are unprofitable and empty.

because I am hearing of your love and of the faith which you hold, not only toward the Lord Jesus Christ, but toward all the saints.

Once you found him "unprofitable," but now he is "profitable" to you and to me.

But without your consent I was unwilling to do anything, so that your kindness to me might be of your own free will, and not of compulsion.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a brother beloved; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, both as a man and a fellow Christian.

I Paul am writing this in my own handwriting, "I will repay you." But I will not mention that you owe me, over and over, your very soul.

But to the Son he says. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, And the scepter of thy kingdom is the scepter of justice.

They will perish, but thou remainest; They all will grow old like a garment,

Like a mantle thou wilt fold them up, And like a garment they will be changed. But thou art the same, And thy years will never fail.

But some one, somewhere, testified, saying. What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? Or any man, that thou carest for him?

Thou hast put all things under his feet. For this putting all things under man means leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not yet see all things subject to him.

For every house has its builder; but he who built the universe is God.

but Christ as a Son in his own house; and we are that house, if we retain the cheerful courage and pride of our hope firm unto the end.

For the Good News is come to us just as it did to them. But the message they heard was of no benefit to them, because they did not share the faith of those who gave heed to it.

and because of this weakness he is bound to offer sin-offerings not only for the people, but also for himself.

Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

So even the Christ was not raised to the high glory of the priesthood by himself, but on the contrary by Him who said to him. Thou art my Son; this day have I become thy Father;

But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

but if it produces thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be to be burned.

But though we thus speak, we are persuaded better things of you, beloved, and things that accompany salvation.

but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end.

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

without father or mother, without lineage, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest in perpetuity.

But observe how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the Patriarch, gave a tenth part of the spoils.

But this man who had no Levitical genealogy actually took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him to whom the promises belong.

who has become such, not according to the law of a transitory enactment, but according to the energy of an indissoluble life.

but he, because of his abiding forever, holds his priesthood inviolable.

For the Law appoints human beings to be high priests, men with all their weakness; but the word of the oath, which was later than the Law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

But Jesus has obtained a better ministry, by so much as he is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.

But finding fault with them, He says. "There are days coming," says the Lord, "When I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant;

while above it, overshadowing the mercy-seat, were the cherubim of glory. But I must not speak about these in detail.

but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.

But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation,

not taking the blood of goats and oxen, but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy Place, obtaining for us an eternal redemption.

For it was not into a Sanctuary made by hands, a mere type of the reality, that Christ entered, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf.

(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.

But on the other hand, in these sacrifices sins are called to memory, year after year.

It is for this reason that the Christ, on coming into the world, declared. Sacrifice and offerings thou dost not desire, But a body didst thou prepare for me;