Above every beginning, and authority, and power, and property, and every name named, not only in this life, but in that about to be:

But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us,

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

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;

And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.

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

Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.

See therefore how ye walk accurately, not as unwise, but as wise,

For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless.

For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church:

This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church.

But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.

Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:

Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser.

For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

Stand therefore, having girded your loins around with truth, and put on the armor of justice;

For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice.

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.

For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others.

But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men:

Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation.

But if also I am poured out upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice together with you all.

For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief.

But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ.

But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,

And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,

But, at what we before arrived, to walk by the same rule, to think the same.

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God.

But ye did well, participating together in my pressure.

Not that I covet a gift: but I covet fruit abounding to your word.

For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth.

Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds;

And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:

Where no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, free: but Christ all things, and in all.

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God:

For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.

For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing.

But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest.

But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

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 this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing.

But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration.

For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.

Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.

For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all.

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

But the Lord is faithful, who supports you, and will watch from the evil.

Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you:

Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.

For we hear some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but occupied unprofitably.

And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother.

Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,

Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief.

But for this was I commiserated, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a model to them about to believe on him to eternal life.

But (what become women professing religious worship) with good works.

And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, was in the transgression.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.

Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren;

Having judgment, for they put away the first faith.

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

Put hands swiftly upon none, nor participate in others' sins: keep thyself pure.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses.

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.

He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,

But devotion with contentment is great gain.

To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;

For God gave not to us the spirit of timidity; but of power, and love, and of soundness of mind.

Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God;

Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,

By which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able to watch my deposits to that day.

But, being in Rome, he sought me very diligently, and found.

In which I suffer ill treatment, to bonds, as an evil doer; but the word of God has not been bound.

Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

And in a great house there is not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen; and some truly for honour, and some for dishonour.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;

As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

In my first defence none was present with me, but all forsook me; (may it not be reckoned to them.)

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

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

The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.

Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things.