Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger - even as the rest, -

So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

In former generations it was not made known to mankind, as fully as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to the Apostles and Prophets among Christ's People--

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us

with darkened understanding, estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and because of the stubbornness of their hearts;

Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice;

But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;

Nor shameful conduct, nor foolish talk or jesting, for they are wholly out of place among you; but rather thanksgiving.

Wherefore it saith - Up! thou sleeper, and arise from among the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

I am confident of this very thing, that God, who began something good among you, will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ's [return].

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

And of this I feel assured, that I shall remain and continue among you all for your advancement and joy in the faith,

so that you may find me fresh cause of exultation in Christ Jesus, because of my presence among you once more.

If there be among you any consolation in Christ, if there be any comfortable love, if there be any fellowship of the spirit, if there be any compassion of mercy:

Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus:

He appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death--to death on a cross!

Do everything without murmuring or questioning [the providence of God],

so that you may prove yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish in the midst of a [morally] crooked and [spiritually] perverted generation, among whom you are seen as bright lights [beacons shining out clearly] in the world [of darkness],

so that I may attain to the resurrection [that will raise me] from the dead.

Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.

To the holy among the Colossians, and the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

which has come to you. Indeed, just as in the whole world the gospel is constantly bearing fruit and spreading [by God’s power], just as it has been doing among you ever since the day you first heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth [becoming thoroughly and deeply acquainted with it].

He is also the head [the life-source and leader] of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will occupy the first place [He will stand supreme and be preeminent] in everything.

if ye continue grounded and established in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, whereof ye have heard, how that it is preached among all creatures, which are under heaven, whereof I, Paul, am made a minister.

In this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship which God entrusted to me for your sake, so that I might make the word of God fully known [among you]—

God [in His eternal plan] chose to make known to them how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in and among you, the hope and guarantee of [realizing the] glory.

Having been buried together with him in your immersion, wherein also ye have been raised together, through your faith in the energising of God - Who raised him from among the dead.

and in these [sinful things] you also once walked, when you were habitually living in them [without the knowledge of Christ].

let there be no fraud among you, since you have discarded your former habits and practices, and are become new men,

Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is from among you: - all things, unto you, will they make known, that are taking place here.

and from Jesus, who is called Justus. These are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are from the circumcision (Jewish Christians), and they have proved to be an encouragement and a comfort to me.

Epaphras who is from among you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, - at all times, contending in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may be caused to stand complete and fully assured in everything willed by God;

And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation of Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.

for our good news [regarding salvation] came to you not only in word, but also in [its inherent] power and in the Holy Spirit and with great conviction [on our part]. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your benefit.

For they themselves report about us, telling what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

And awaiting his Son out of the heavens - whom he raised from among the dead, - Jesus: Who is to rescue us out of the anger that is coming.

For you know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you has not been ineffective (fruitless, in vain),

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.

For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

But we behaved gently when we were among you, like a devoted mother tenderly caring for her own children.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

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

exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God's message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God's message, which is at work among you who believe.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? are not ye also among others in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone:

For this reason, when I could no longer endure the suspense, I sent someone to find out about your faith [how you were holding up under pressure], for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our work [among you] would prove to be ineffective.

that each man among you should learn to take his own wife out of pure and honorable motives,

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spirit among you.

We beg you, brothers, to practice showing respect to those who labor among you, who are your leaders in the Lord's work, and who advise you;

and to esteem them with exceptional love because of their work. Live peaceably among yourselves.

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

so that we are always boasting of you among the churches of God for your patient endurance and faith, in spite of your persecutions and crushing sorrows which you are enduring.

when on that day He comes to be glorified in His consecrated ones and to be admired by all who believe in Him because our testimony has been confidently accepted among you.

And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the message of the Lord may continue to spread and prove its glorious power as it did among you,

For ye yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us. Because we did not act disorderly among you,

pursuant to the maxim, which we laid down, when among you, "he that refuses to work should be deny'd food."

But we are informed that some among you are living as shirkers, mere busybodies, instead of busy at work.

It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan to be so disciplined that they will stop their abusive speech.

He should also have a good reputation among outsiders, lest he fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil.

Undoubtedly the mystery of our religion is a great wonder: "He was made visible in human form; He was vindicated by the Spirit; He was seen by angels; He was proclaimed among the heathen; He was trusted in throughout the world; He was taken up to glory."

Think on these things--exist within these things--so that thy progress may be visible among all.

Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;

and perpetual friction between men who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who think that godliness is a source of profit [a lucrative, money-making business—withdraw from them].

You have had news that all those in Asia went away from me; among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes:

And, the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same, entrust thou unto faithful men, such as shall be, competent, to teach, others also.

Keep in mind Jesus Christ - raised from among the dead, of the seed of David, - according to my joyful message:

And their word will spread like gangrene; Hymenaeus and Philetus are among them.

Among such are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have gone astray concerning the truth by declaring that the resurrection is already past; and they are undermining the faith of some.

For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses,

For there are many, especially among the Jews, who are obstinate, vain talkers and deceivers;

Said one from among them, a prophet, of their own! - Cretans! always false, mischievous wild-beasts, idle gluttons:

If a man is causing divisions among you, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to say to him.

Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones;

I will declare thy name among my brethren; in the midst of the assembly, will I sing hymns to thee.

Now Moses was a faithful servant among all of [those belonging to] God's household [i.e., the Israelites], as [one who gave] testimony about the things which [were to be] spoken [by him],

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

So, as long as God's promise of entering into a state of rest with Him [still] remains, we should fear that someone among you will appear [in the end] to have fallen short of [attaining] it. [Note: In this section "entering into rest" refers to Israel entering Canaan (verses 6, 8) and to Christians entering heaven (verses 3, 9). The "Sabbath day rest" is represented as a type of both].

For every high priest chosen from time to time from among men is appointed on behalf of men, in matters relating to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins.

For it is a custom among men to take oath by something greater than themselves, and an oath taken for confirmation settles any dispute among them.

And, they, indeed, from among the sons of Levi who the priesthood receive, have commandment to take tithes of the people, according to the law, that is, of their brethren, although sprung from the loins of Abraham;

But, he who deriveth not his pedigree from among them, hath taken tithes of Abraham. And, the holder of the promises, hath he blessed.

And among them, many were made priests, because they were not suffered to endure by the reason of death.

Now the principal thing among those of which we are speaking is this: We have such a highpriest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.

and let us not forsake the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the manner of some is: but let us exhort one another, and that so much the more, because ye see that the day draweth nigh.

But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] souls.

Accounting that, even from among the dead, God, was able, to raise him , - whence, even in similitude, he bare him away.

(men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies.

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Now may the God of peace [the source of serenity and spiritual well-being] who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood that sealed and ratified the eternal covenant,

James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve [Hebrew] tribes [scattered abroad among the Gentiles] in the dispersion: Greetings (rejoice)!