Let him that stealeth steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands at that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

Let no foul language proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for edification, as the need may be, that it may benefit the hearers;

For of this ye are sure, since ye know that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Wherefore he saith, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light."

See then that ye walk circumspectly; not as unwise men, but as wise;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of the water in the word;

that he himself might present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

In like manner husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself;

However, do ye also severally love each one his own wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

"that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live long on the earth."

knowing that whatever good each one shall have done, that shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bondman or free.

And, ye masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening; knowing that both they and you have a Master in heaven, and that there is no respect of persons with him.

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil;

Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

and for me, that utterance may be given me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,

in behalf of which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may proclaim it boldly, as I ought to speak.

But that ye also may know about me, how I am faring, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will inform you of everything;

whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that ye may know about us, and that he may comfort your hearts.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began in you a good work, will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus;

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all discernment;

so that ye may approve the things that are most excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence against the day of Christ,

But I wish you to know, brethren, that things with me have resulted in the furtherance of the gospel;

so that my bonds have become known in connection with Christ in the whole camp of the imperial guards, and to all the rest;

and that the great part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

They who are of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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

And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your advancement and joy in your faith,

that your glorying in me, in the cause of Christ Jesus, may be more abundant by my coming to you again.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries; which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation; and that from God;

make my joy full, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, with union of soul cherishing one mind;

that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth,

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

that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,

holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I know your state.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son serves a father, he served with me for the gospel.

but I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come soon.

for he was longing after you all, and was much troubled, because ye heard that he was sick.

I send him therefore the more speedily, that when ye see him ye may again rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

though I myself have reason for confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath reason for confidence in the flesh, I more;

Nay more, I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, that I may gain Christ,

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith;

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

Not that I have already obtained, or have been already perfected; but I press on, if I may also lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ.

Brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth to the things that are before,

Nevertheless, whereto we have reached, in that let us walk.

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

who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it shall be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of the power with which he is able to subdue all things to himself.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord;

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived again in your care for my welfare; for which indeed ye cared before, but lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak on account of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.

And ye yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in an account of giving and receiving, but ye only;

Not that I seek for such a gift, but I do seek for fruit that may abound to your account.

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

that ye may walk worthily of the Lord so as to please him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

And he is the head of the body, the church; since he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be in all things preeminent;

for God was pleased that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to himself,

And you, that were once alienated, and enemies in your mind in wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

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

that their hearts may be encouraged, they being knit together in love, and that they may attain to all the riches of a full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;

And this I say, that no one may impose on you by specious discourses.

blotting out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us, which was opposed to us, he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds,

and have put on the new man, who is renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him;

knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the recompense of the inheritance; serve Christ as your Lord.

For he that doeth wrong, shall receive back the wrong which he hath done; and there is no respect of persons.

Masters, deal out to your bondservants justice and equity, knowing that ye also have a master in heaven.

praying at the same time for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for the sake of which I am also in bonds;

that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, buying up opportunities.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one.

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

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

For I bear him witness, that he hath much labor for you, and those that are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

And when the letter hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the letter from Laodicea.

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it.

since we know, brethren beloved of God, that he hath chosen you;

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

For from you the word of the Lord hath sounded forth not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God hath become known; so that we need not say anything [about you].

For ye yourselves know, brethren, that our coming among you hath not been in vain;

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily, and righteously, and unblamably we conducted ourselves toward you that believe;

that ye should walk in a manner worthy of God, who is calling you to his own kingdom and glory.

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also is powerfully working in you that believe.

hindering us from speaking to the gentiles that they may be saved,to fill up their sins always! But the wrath is come upon them to the end.

Wherefore we purposed to come to you, that is, I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

so that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for yourselves know that to this we are appointed;

for even when we were with you, we told you before that we are to suffer affliction, just as it came to pass, and ye know.

But when Timothy just now came to us from you, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you;

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may supply that which is lacking in your faith?

in order that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.

Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more;

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

that every one of you should know how to procure for himself his own vessel in purity and honor,

that no one should go beyond and overreach his brother in the matter; because the Lord is the avenger in respect to all these things, as we also told you before and solemnly testified.

He therefore that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who also gave to you his Holy Spirit.