But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

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

What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

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

and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

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

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

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

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man) -- they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

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

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

Peace be to the brothers, 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.

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead -- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.