But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;

So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God.

But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.

And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power.

But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you only?

Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among the dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of those that are dead?

(But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.

one the sun's glory, and another the moon's glory, and another the stars' glory; for star differs from star in glory.

Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;

and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea.

And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.

to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things?

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory from you?

But we all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us:

For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which is from heaven;

Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not what is unclean, and I will receive you;

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.

but even as ye abound in every way, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in love from you to us, that ye may abound in this grace also.

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

From the Jews five times have I received forty stripes, save one.

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

For this I thrice besought the Lord that it might depart from me.

Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from among the dead,

Grace to you, and peace, from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,

For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I taught them, but by revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when God, who set me apart even from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous communicated nothing;

for before that certain came from James, he ate with those of the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision;

Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.

Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.

Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated from him, as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life:

But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies,

that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to the working in its measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.

being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

because of your fellowship with the gospel, from the first day until now;

and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among the dead.

for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,

But I have all things in full supply and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things sent from you, an odour of sweet savour, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to God.

to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ which are in Colosse. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:

if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.

the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;

buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.

and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

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

for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;

for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

hold aloof from every form of wickedness.

Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with the angels of his power,

who shall pay the penalty of everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might,

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for faith is not the portion of all.

But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep you from evil.

Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:

to Timotheus, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.

But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

to Timotheus, my beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,

Thou knowest this, that all who are in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me.

the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day and how much service he rendered in Ephesus thou knowest best.