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."

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

for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.

On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.

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.

I entreat you, brothers, to acknowledge those who are toiling among you and are your leaders in the Lord, and give you counsel.

Esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Live in peace among yourselves.

So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.

For you know well how you must imitate me. For I did not lead an idle or disorderly life among you;

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

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

You already know that all the Christians in Roman Asia forsook me, among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.

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 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.

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

Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

are you not drawing distinctions among yourselves, and have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.

Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom.

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

(for that righteous man, living among them, tormented his righteous soul in seeing and hearing, day after day, their lawless deeds),

I have written somewhat to the church; but Diotrephes, who love to take the lead among them, does not receive me.

Behold, he is about to come among the clouds; and every eye will see him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. So shall it be, Amen.

To the angel of the Church in Ephesus, write. These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and who walks among the seven golden candlesticks.

I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is; and yet you are holding fast my name, and you have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was slain among you, where Satan has his dwelling.

and the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the generals, the rich and the mighty, both slaves and freemen, every one of them hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are celibates. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among men to be the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb.