according to my expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

And fully believing this, I know that I shall continue, and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of the faith,

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my coming again to you.

Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

fulfil my joy, that you have the same mind, having the same love, sympathizing with each other, having one opinion.

Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each esteem others better than himself,

that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth,

and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs.

But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

and I hope in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

for he greatly desired you all and was anxious, because you heard that he was sick.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him again you may rejoice and I be less sorrowful.

because on account of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly for his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.

But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ

and be found in him, not having my righteousness by the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by the faith,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

that I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

For many walk, of whom I told you often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began again to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no opportunity [to serve me].

Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.

I endure all things with him that strengthens me.

And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;

Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to your account.

which is present with you as also in all the world, and is fruitful and increases, as also with you, from the day that you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all that is pleasing [to him], being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

and he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things,

for in him [God] was well pleased that all fullness should dwell,

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

that your hearts may be comforted, being united in love and [raised] to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God,

But I say this that no one may mislead you with persuasive words.

See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's.

and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,

Fathers, be not fault-finding with your children, that they be not discouraged.

knowing that you will receive from the Lord the recompense of the inheritance. You serve Christ the Lord;

for he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no respect of persons.

Masters, render to your servants what is just and equal, knowing also that you have a master in heaven.

praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a door of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am bound,

that I may declare it plainly, as I ought to speak.

Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that he may know your affairs and comfort your hearts,

Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For I bear him witness that he has great zeal for you and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

And when this letter has been read with you, cause that it be also read by the church of the Laodiceans; and do you also read that from Laodicea.

that our gospel came not to you in word only, but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with full assurance, as you know what we were among you for your sakes.

so that you became an example to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

For from you the word of the Lord was proclaimed not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith with respect to God went into every place, so that we had no need to say any thing;

For you know, brothers, our introduction to you that it was not in vain,

For you remember, brothers, our labor and weariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

You are witnesses, and God, how piously, and righteously, and blamelessly we were with you that believe,

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that receiving the word of God heard from us, you received not a word of men, but, as it is in truth, a word of God, who also works in you that believe.

forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always; and the wrath has come on them to the utmost.

that no one should be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this;

for indeed when we came to you, we told you before that we were about to suffer affliction, as it also happened, and you know.

But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we also you,

FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor,

that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified.

He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;

that you may walk becomingly towards those without and have need of nothing.

And we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those that have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also will God bring with him those that have fallen asleep on account of Jesus.

For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who live and remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those that have fallen asleep,

But concerning the times and season, brothers, you have no need that I should write to you;

for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief;

For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night;

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

See that no one renders evil for evil, but always pursue the good both one to another and to all.

Faithful is he that calls you, who will also perform.

I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brothers.

so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,

a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,

in a flame of fire, executing judgment on all that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;

when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired by all that believe in that day, for our testimony was believed by you.

For which also we pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the work of faith with power;

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.

that you be not soon shaken in mind, nor terrified, neither by a spirit, nor by a discourse, nor by an epistle as from us, as though the day of the Lord was at hand.

who opposes and exalts himself above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Do you not remember that when I was with you I told you of these things?

and with every unrighteous deceit among those who are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.

And therefore, God sends them a power of delusion that they should believe a lie,

that they all may be condemned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in wickedness.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, as also with you,

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all have not faith.

And we trust in the Lord with respect to you, that you both do and will do what we direct.

not that we have not a right [to a support], but that we may make ourselves an example for you to follow us.

For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.

For we hear that some go about among you in a disorderly manner, not working, but being above work;

But if any one obeys not our word by this epistle, mark that one, and have no association with him, that he may be ashamed;

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine,

nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully;