I intended to take you on my way to Macedonia, and to visit you again on my way back from Macedonia, so as to be sped by you on my journey to Judaea.

So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.

O Corinthians, I am keeping nothing back from you; my heart is wide open for you.

I beg of you that when I do come I may not have to speak out and be peremptory; but my mind is made up to tackle certain people who have made up their minds that I move on the low level of the flesh.

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder ??21 afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

I warned you already, on my second visit, and I warn you now before I come, both you who sinned some time ago and the rest of you as well, that I will spare no one if I come back.

instead of going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return I came back to Damascus.

Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

Do take my line, brothers, I beg of you ??just as I once took yours. I have no complaint against you;

See what big letters I make, when I write you in my own hand!

So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.

As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,

Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

And you, my true comrade, lend a hand to these women, I beg of you; they have fought at my side in the active service of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

for the wrongdoer will be paid back for his wrongdoing ??there will be no favour shown.

Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

Brothers, we beg you to respect those who are working among you, presiding over you in the Lord and maintaining discipline;

see that none of you pays back evil for evil, but always aim at what is kind to one another and to all the world;

With regard to the arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ and our muster before him, I beg you, brothers,

they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.

Luke is the only one who is with me. Pick up Mark and bring him along with you, for he is of great use in helping me.

Alexander the blacksmith has done me a lot of harm: the Lord will pay him back for what he has done (beware of him),

I am sending him back to you, and parting with my very heart.

Perhaps this was why you and he were parted for a while, that you might get him back for good,

for after Moses had announced every command in the Law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with water, scarlet wool and hyssop, sprinkling the book and all the people,

So I said, 'Here I come ??in the roll of the book this is written of me ??I come to do thy will, O God.'

Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him.

We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.

If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back,

and had been told that it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??19 for he considered that God was able even to raise men from the dead. Hence he did get him back, by what was a parable of the resurrection.

Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.

I urge you to this all the more, that I may get back to you the sooner.

My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back,

understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.

You were astray like sheep, but you have come back now to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

never paying back evil for evil, never reviling when you are reviled, but on the contrary blessing. For this is your vocation, to bless and to inherit blessing;

Better had they never known the Way of righteousness, than to know it and then turn back from the holy command which was committed to them.

They verify the truth of the proverb: "The dog turns back to what he has vomited, the sow when washed will wallow in the mire."

"Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'

Then I saw lying on the right hand of him who was seated on the throne, a scroll with writing on the back, as well as inside, sealed with seven seals.

After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds from blowing on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss ??yet to perdition he shall go ??and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming.

And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened ??also another book, the book of Life, was opened ??and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire ??which is the second death, the lake of fire.

Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.

Lo, I am coming very soon; blessed is he who lays to heart the words of the prophecy of this book!"

But he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers the prophets, who lay to heart the words of this book. Worship God."

He said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near:

[I adjure all who hear the words of the prophecy of this book: "If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book;

and if anyone removes any words written in this book, God will remove his share in the tree of Life and in the holy City described in this book."]