among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, and fulfilled the will of the flesh, and of the mind: and were naturally the children of wrath, even as well as others.

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--

Unto me, the least of all saints, is this grace given; that I should preach among the gentiles 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;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it 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.

But each individual man among you must love his wife as he loves himself; and may the wife fear her husband.

I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good action among you will bring it to completion by the Day of the Messiah Jesus.

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:

Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in the Messiah 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],

that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,

in the hope of attaining, in some measure, the resurrection that lifts me out from among 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.

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,

Yes, He is the Head of the church as His body. For He is the beginning, the first-born among the dead, so that He alone should stand first 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 it I have been made a minister in accordance with the trusteeship God entrusted to me for you, that I might prove among you the universal message of God,

To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of 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.

among whom you once led your daily life when you lived in them.

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.

So also does Jesus who is called Justus. They are the only ones among the converts from Judaism who have worked with me for the reign of God who have proved 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;

When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had among you, and how ye 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 ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not 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 we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

But we were like children among you, like a nursing mother cherishes 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.

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

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.

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

See that none recompense 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 he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.

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 you know how you ought to imitate us. For we did not behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

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

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who do not work at all, but are busybodies.

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.

And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in 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:

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able 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 message {will spread} like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Men verily swear by him that is greater than themselves; And an oath to confirm the thing, is among them an end of all strife.

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 whose kindred is not counted among them, received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

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 no more teach every man his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the mean man of 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 held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But, the God of peace, He that led up from among the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of an age-abiding covenant, - our Lord Jesus,

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)!