Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas, but I spent only two weeks with him;

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

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

So it is said: "Wake up, sleeper; get up from the dead, and Christ will make day dawn on you."

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.

for you know that it is from the Lord that you are going to get your pay in the form of an inheritance; so keep on serving Christ the Lord.

For those who sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunken at night,

Keep the young widows off this roll, for when they get to indulging their lower nature in opposition to Christ, they want to marry,

Besides, as they get the habit of gadding about from house to house, they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, talking of things they ought not to mention.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching.

Those who have Christian masters must not pay them less respect because they are brothers; they must serve them all the better, because those who get the benefit of their service are believers and so are dear to them. These are the things that you must continue to teach and urge them to do.

But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.

Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Prudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

For you know that, when later he wanted to get possession of the blessing, he was rejected, for he could find no opportunity to repent, although with tears he tried to get the blessing.

(1:7) unreliable in every step he takes, must not expect to get anything from the Lord.

You must understand this, my dearly loved brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to get angry;

You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains,

So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander,

This is the command that we get from Him, that whoever loves God loves his brother too.

And if we know that He listens to us in whatever we ask Him for, we know that we get from Him the things that we have asked Him for.

Look out for yourselves, so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so as to get your full reward.