So we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun [it], thus he would also complete for you this [act of] grace.

Just as you excel in everything else??aith, expression, knowledge, perfect devotion, and the love we have awakened in you??ou must excel in this generous undertaking too.

Now finish doing it too, so that your readiness to finish it may be just like your readiness to start it, in accordance with what you have.

just as the Scripture says, "The man who gathered much did not have too much, and the man who gathered little did not have too little."

Therefore shew unto them, and in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our [just] boasting in you.

Now I have sent the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter may not prove to be an idle boast, and so that you may stand ready, just as I said.

Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver.

Just as it is written, "He scattered widely, he gave to the poor; his righteousness remains {forever}."

You look at things externally. If anyone is sure he belongs to Christ, let him think again and understand that I belong to Christ just as much as he.

Such people had better understand that when I arrive and take action I will do just as I say I will in my letters when I am far away.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts will be led astray from their single-hearted fidelity to Christ.

But what I am doing, I will also do, in order that I may remove the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, that they may be found just as also we [are] in what they are boasting about.

But when I talk in this boastful confidence, I am not talking in accordance with the way the Lord talked, but just as a fool talks.

To my shame I must say that we have been weak by comparison.But in whatever respect anyone else is bold—I speak in foolishness—I am just as bold myself.

It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

I have said it, and I say it again before I come, just as if I were with you on my second visit, though for the moment absent, I say to those who have been long sinning, as well as to all others--that if I come again, I shall spare no one.

What I have just said I repeat--if any one is preaching to you a Good News other than that which you originally received, let him be accursed.

On the contrary, because they saw that I had been entrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been entrusted with it for the Jews --

Now when Peter visited Antioch, I remonstrated with him to his face, because he had incurred just censure.

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

just as "Abraham put his faith in God, and it was credited to him as right standing with God"?

That no man is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident. For the just shall live by faith.

Now a mediator is not for just one person, but God is one.

I beg you, brothers, take my point of view, just as I took yours. You did me no injustice then.

But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly??ot just when I can be with you,

But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac.

But just as then the child born in the ordinary course of nature persecuted the one born by the power of the Spirit, so it is today.

I wish that those who are causing such a problem over wanting people to be circumcised would just mutilate themselves [while they are at it!].

For the cravings of the lower nature are just the opposite to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are just the opposite of those of the lower nature; these two are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do anything you please.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not be deceived anymore; God is not to be scoffed at. A person will reap just what he sows, whatever it is.

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

But, just now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who at one time were afar off, were made nigh in the blood of the Christ;

and how this secret was made known to me through a revelation, just as I wrote about briefly in the past.

There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope resulting from the call you have received;

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

if indeed you have heard [about] him, and you were taught by him (just as truth is in Jesus),

You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so the married women in everything must be subject to their husbands.

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church;

But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

Do not serve them only when you are being watched, just to gain their approval, but as slaves of Christ, doing what God wants from your heart.

Render your service wholeheartedly, as you would to the Lord, and not [just] to people,

and you masters have a just regard to them, by softning your authority: knowing that both their and your master is in heaven, where there is no respect of persons with him.

he who has begun this good work in you will bring it to perfection against the appearance of Christ. it is but just

It is but just that I should be thus mindful of you all, because I have you in my heart, and because in these fetters of mine and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all my fellow partners in the privilege.

Then you will be able to approve of [only] what is best and be sincere and without just blame on the day of Christ's [return],

But so what? Just this that in every way, whether by false or true motives, the Messiah is being proclaimed. Because of this, I rejoice and will continue to rejoice.

Just one thing: Live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith that comes from the gospel,

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

so that you will be without just blame and innocent [of wrongdoing], children of God without fault in the middle of a crooked and perverted generation of people. You must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky,

just as you must be glad and congratulate me.

But you people know about his proven reliability, how he served with me in advancing [the work of] the Gospel just like a son working with his father.

So I hope to send him to you just as soon as I can see how my case is going to turn out.

As far as enthusiasm is concerned, I persecuted the church; as far as being righteous according to the law of Moses is concerned, I was without just blame.

in order to obtain the resurrection of the just.

It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.

Become fellow imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who walk in this way, just as you have us [as] an example.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

And you at Philippi know, as well as I, that in the early days of the Good News--at the time when I had just left Macedonia--no Church, with the one exception of yourselves, had anything to do with me as far as giving and receiving are concerned.

You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.

And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,

just as you learned [it] from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave who is a faithful minister of Christ [on] our behalf,

yet now God has reconciled [you] to Himself through the death of Christ's physical body in order to present you holy, without fault and free from just blame before Him [on judgment day].

So, just as you once accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue living in vital union with Him,

with your roots deeply planted in Him, being continuously built up in Him, and growing stronger in faith, just as you were taught to do, overflowing through it in your gratitude.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception [pseudo-intellectual babble], according to the tradition [and musings] of mere men, following the elementary principles of this world, rather than following [the truth—the teachings of] Christ.

bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as Christ the Lord forgave you, so must you forgive.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.

In whatever you do, work wholeheartedly, as though it were for the Lord and not [just] for people,

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

because our gospel did not come to you with word only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, just as you know what sort of [people] we became among you for your sake.

For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.

But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.

{For never} did we come with a word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext of greediness (God [is] witness),

You are witnesses??nd so is God??ow pure and just and blameless was my behavior among you believers.

just as you know how [we treated] each one of you, like a father his own children,

For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God [which] are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same [things] at the hands of your own people, just as [they] themselves [did] also at the hands of the Jews,

for indeed when we were with you we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, just as indeed it happened, and you know.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

May the Lord strengthen your hearts so you will be [found] without just blame and holy, in the presence of our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus Christ returns with all of His holy ones [i.e., angels. See Mark 8:38; II Thess. 1:7].

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;

Furthermore, you must never take advantage of or exploit a brother in this regard, because the Lord avenges all these things, just as we already told you and warned you.

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

As soon as they begin to say - Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction, - just as the birth-throe unto her that is with child, - and in nowise shall they escape.

Therefore encourage one another and build up {each other}, just as indeed you are doing.

And may God Himself, who gives peace, dedicate you completely, and may your spirit, soul and body [i.e., your entire person] be kept without just blame at [i.e., until] the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing

Which are a demonstration of the just judgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: