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;

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

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

who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in the likeness of men;

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;

because now we live if ye stand firm in the Lord.

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:

So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

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.

Remember Jesus Christ raised from among the dead, of the seed of David, according to my glad tidings,

Yet the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows those that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of the Lord withdraw from iniquity.

If therefore one shall have purified himself from these, in separating himself from them, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work.

having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

The Lord shall deliver me from every wicked work, and shall preserve me for his heavenly kingdom; to whom be glory for the ages of ages. Amen.

to Titus, my own child according to the faith common to us: Grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

not turning their minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.

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

for perhaps for this reason he has been separated from thee for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for ever;

For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are we, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.

See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God.

For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

For he has said somewhere of the seventh day thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:

For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.

For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

though he were Son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered;

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;

which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,

For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him;

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;

For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:

And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.

how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

since he had then been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for the putting away of sin by his sacrifice.

waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set for the footstool of his feet.

let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant,

Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. They from Italy salute you.

for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;

Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.