Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.

For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.

For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to be pressed; as also it was, and ye know.

And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you:

Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:

And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;

That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing.

And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept.

For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept.

For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.

And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you.

He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him.

See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all.

So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure:

When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power:

So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.

Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, yet being with you, I spake these to you

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

As to the rest, pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be honoured, as also with you:

And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.

And we have had confidence in the Lord for you, that what we announce to you, and ye do and will do.

For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;

Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.

For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.

And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.

As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine,

Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,

But for this was I commiserated, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a model to them about to believe on him to eternal life.

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare;

Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity.

And if I delay, that thou shouldest know how thou must be occupied in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;

For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.

For, for this also we are wearied and reproached, that we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, chiefly of the faithful.

Bestow diligent care upon these things; be in them; that thy progress may be manifest in all things.

And these things proclaim, that they might be irreprehensible.

If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.

Them having sinned rebuke before all, that the rest also have fear.

I call to witness before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that thou watch these things without preference, doing nothing by bending.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed.

For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out.

Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life.

O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:

Desiring earnestly to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Receiving the report of unfeigned faith in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

By which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able to watch my deposits to that day.

Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

(May, the Lord give to him to find mercy of the Lord in that day:) and in how many things he served in Ephesus, thou knowest better.

None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him.

For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will.

And this know, that in the last days difficult times shall interpose.

And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus.

That the man of God might be perfect, finished for every good work.

As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee:

Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing.

This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them severely, that they may be sound in the faith;

That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,

Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.

The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.

Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people. zealous of good works.

That justified by his grace, we might be heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Faithful the word, and I wish for thee to be assured of these things, that they having believed God might turn their thoughts to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

Send forward zealously Zenas pertaining to the law, and Apollos, that nothing fail them.

And let ours also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

So that the mutual participation of thy faith might be effective in acknowledgment of every good in you to Christ Jesus.

Whom I sent back: and thou him, that is, my bowels, receive again:

Whom I was wishing to retain to myself, that for thee he might serve me in the bonds of the good news:

But without thy judgment I would do nothing; that good might not be as according to necessity, but according to free will.

For perhaps therefore he was separated for a time, that thou mightest receive him forever;

I Paul wrote with my hand, I will pay back: that I say not to thee, for thou owest thyself to me also in addition.

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote to thee, knowing that thou wilt do above what I say to thee.

And at the same time also prepare for me a reception as a guest: for I hope that by your prayers I shall be given as a favor to you.

And somewhere a certain one testified, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him? or the son of man, that thou reviewest him?

But we see Jesus, made some little while less than angels by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste of death for all.

Since therefore the young children participated in flesh and blood, he also likewise participated with them; that by death he might leave unemployed him having the strength of death, that is, the devil;

Wherefore in all things it was necessary to be made like to the brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things towards God, in order to propitiate for the sin of the people.

For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the tempted.

Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways.

In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation.

And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient?

Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief.

We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed for men for things to God, that he bring both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.

That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:

Which we have as an anchor of the soul, unshaken and firm, and entering into that further within the veil.;