For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.

But if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord's command.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then, at his coming, those who belong to him.

"For God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All things are put in subjection under him," it is plain that he is excepted who put all things under him.

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

So let no one despise him. Send him on his way in peace, that he may return to me; for I am expecting him with the brethren.

As for our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to come to you with the other brethren, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.

If anyone does not love the Lordlet him be accursed. Come, O Lord!

He delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by usby me and Silvanus and Timothywas not Yes and No, but in him it has always been Yes.

For as many as are the promises of God, in him they are Yes. And so through him we speak our Amen to the glory of God.

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a fleshly point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from a fleshly point of view, we regard him thus no longer.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Working together with him, then, we urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

For if I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.

And his affection goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his preaching of the gospel;

You look at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.

But, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not act in the same spirit and walk in the same steps?

For he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God for you.

Paul, an apostlesent not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we preached to you, let him be accursed!

As we have said before, so I say again now, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be accursed!

to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

Even so Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."

But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

This persuasion did not come from him who calls you.

Let the one who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before him. In love

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

as a plan for the fullness of the times, to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth. In him

also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will,

In him, you also have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having also believed, you were sealed in him with the promised Holy Spirit,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him.

which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

And he put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things for the church,

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

and raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

for through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in him.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him, who is the head, into Christ,

assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.

Masters, do the same to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.

For to you it has been granted for the sake of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake,

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,

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

Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me;

Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may have less anxiety.

So receive him in the Lord with all joy; and honor men like him,

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christthe righteousness that comes from God and is by faith,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death;

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.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

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.

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authoritiesall things were created through him and for him.

He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

For all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell in him

and through him, to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

yet he has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death, in order to present you before him holy and blameless and beyond reproach

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him,

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with thanksgiving.

For in him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

and you have been made complete in him, who is the head over all rule and authority.

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

When you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our sins,

And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them through him.

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

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts;

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

My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you his greetings, and also Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you have received instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him.)

I testify for him that he has worked hard for you and for those who are in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

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

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

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we beg you, brethren,

And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he may be revealed.

If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who would believe in him for eternal life.

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,

who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

For this reason I also suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.