If boast I must, it shall be concerning my weakness.

I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

And I know that this man?? do not know whether it was in the body or out of it, God knows??4 was caught up into Paradise, and heard things that must not be told, which no human being can repeat.

was actually caught up into paradise, and heard things that must not be told, which no man has a right even to mention.

For what is there in which the other churches had the better of you, except in the fact that I would not permit myself to be a burden to you? You must forgive me that wrong!

This is my third visit to you. Any charge preferred must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

You yourselves must continue testing yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. You must continue standing the test. Do you not know by a growing experience that Jesus Christ is in you? -- provided you stand the test.

For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.

For I must tell you, brethren, that the Good News which was proclaimed by me is not such as man approves of.

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you have been living like a gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the gentiles must live like Jews?"

and yet what must have tried you in my physical condition, you did not scorn and despise, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

But what does the Scripture say? "Drive out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman must never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

Yes, I declare to every person who attempts to require circumcision [as a means of gaining acceptance with God], that he must also obey everything else required by the law of Moses.

But, brothers, if I were still preaching [that a person had] to be circumcised, why am I being persecuted? [Note: Paul's argument seems to be "I must not be preaching circumcision since I am being persecuted by those who believe in it"]. [If I preached that a person had to be circumcised] then my preaching that Christ died on the cross would not be such an offense [to those who believe in it].

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

For the whole law is summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

Since we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.

We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.

for every one must carry his own pack load.

The one who is taught the message must share all his good things with the teacher.

So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.

Therefore, as we have opportunity, we must work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.

and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,

Now surely this 'going up' must imply that he had already gone down into the world beneath.

We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.

So this I say, and solemnly affirm together with the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the [unbelieving] Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds [and in the foolishness and emptiness of their souls],

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

You must adopt a new attitude of mind,

And that you must clothe yourselves in that new nature which was created to resemble God, with the righteousness and holiness springing from the Truth.

So you must lay aside falsehood and each of you practice telling the truth to his neighbor, for we are parts of one another.

If you do get angry, you must stop sinning in your anger. Do not ever let the sun go down on your anger;

you must not give the devil a chance.

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

You must stop offending the Holy Spirit of God by whom you have been stamped for the day of redemption.

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

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

So you must keep on following God's example, as dearly loved children of His,

But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith].

there must be no indecency, silly talk or suggestive jesting, for they are unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead.

So you must stop having anything to do with them.

For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

you must approve what is pleasing to the Lord.

Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them.

So you must be very careful how you live, not thoughtlessly but thoughtfully,

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

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,

In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.

Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother and so perfectly unite himself to his wife that the two shall be one.

But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good

You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

You slave-owners, too, must maintain the same attitude toward your slaves, and stop threatening them, for you know that their real Lord and yours is in heaven, and that He never shows partiality.

From now on you must grow stronger through union with the Lord and through His mighty power.

You must put on God's full armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

Only you must practice living lives that are worthy of the good news, so that whether I come and see you or stay away, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, and that with one purpose you are continuing to cooperate in the fight for faith in the good news.

so that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow [in submission], of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

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,

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith [for preaching the message of salvation], still I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

I will rejoice and congratulate you all; and in the same way you must rejoice and congratulate me.

But I feel that I must send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, whom you sent to look after my needs.

For all those of our number who are mature, this must be the point of view; God will reveal that to any of you who look at things differently.

However, we must continue to live up to that degree of success that we have already reached.

Therefore, my dear brothers whom I long for, my joy and my victor's crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.

However, you must remain firmly established and steadfast in the faith, without being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

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

You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude.

Such people lose their connection with the head, from which the whole body through its ligaments and sinews must be governed and united if it is to grow in the divine way.

If you died with Christ to the world's rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men??21 such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this"??22 all things which are intended to perish in the using?

"You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch,"

But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on

bearing graciously with one another, and willingly forgiving each other if one has a cause for complaint against another; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so should you forgive.

And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.

And the peace of Christ must rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, for this is your Christian duty.

You husbands must continue to love your wives and stop being harsh with them.

You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

You must persevere in prayer and by this means stay wide awake when you give thanks.

And when this Letter has been read among you, let it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans, and you in turn must read the one I am sending to Laodicea.

so that no one would be unsettled by these difficulties [to which I have referred]. For you know that we have been destined for this [as something unavoidable in our position].

For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, that, even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God, - even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.

Each of you must know how to control his own body in a holy and honorable manner,

This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not sorrow like other men, who have no hope.

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we must believe that God by Jesus will raise the dead, and assemble them with him.

So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious.

But since we belong to the day, we must be serious and put the armor of faith and love on our chests, and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation.

We must always thank God for you, brothers. This is right, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.

For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you,

You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,