So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what share have believers with non-believers?

I speak not for condemnation, for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

Great is my boldness toward you, great is my pride for you. I have been filled with encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.

Because of this we have been encouraged. And from your encouragement, we rejoiced to a greater degree more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Because, if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed, but as we spoke all things in truth to you, so also our boast to Titus became truth.

I rejoice that I have confidence in you in everything.

For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable to the extent if some man has, not to the extent he does not have.

Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, I have done a night and a day in the depth,

I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

Any man of whom I have sent to you, did I exploit you through him?

lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.

I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,

For we do not have any power against the truth, but for the truth.

As we have said before, I now also say again, if any man preaches a good-news to you contrary to what ye received, let him be accursed.

But that issue was because of those FALSE brothers smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

For as many as were immersed into Christ have put on Christ.

I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.

Where then is your satisfaction? For I testify to you, that if possible, having plucked your eyes out, ye would have given them to me.

So then have I become your enemy telling you the truth?

Ye were discharged from the Christ, ye who are made righteous by law. Ye have fallen from grace.

I have confidence toward you in Lord, that ye will think no other thing. But the man who troubles you will bear the verdict, whoever he may be.

And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

So then as we have time, let us work what is good toward all men, and especially toward those belonging to a household of the faith.

For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,

For us to be for appreciation of his glory, men who have first hoped in the Christ.

because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father.

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through his faith.

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

Just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good-news, you all being partners with me of the grace.

But I want you to know, brothers, that the things in respect to me have come more for the advancement of the good-news,

And more of the brothers in Lord have been convinced by my bonds to be much more bold to speak the word fearlessly.

Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus,

Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For I have no man like-minded who will genuinely care for the things about you.

For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead,

However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way.

Brothers, become fellow-imitators of me, and watch those who so walk, just as ye have us for an example.

But I rejoiced in Lord greatly that now at last ye have revived thinking about me, in which also ye were thinking, but ye lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak regarding need, for I have learned in what things I am to be content.

I know both how to be abased and how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be lacking.

And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good-news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only,

But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,

Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have about you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh.

And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority.

Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.

Praying simultaneously about us also, so that God may open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound,

For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.

But now of Timothy, having come to us from you, and having proclaimed good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye always have a good recollection of us, longing to see us, just as we also you,

not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

so that ye may walk properly toward those outside, and may have nothing lacking.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

But about the times and the seasons, brothers, ye have no need to be written to you.

So as for us ourselves to have pride in you in the congregations of God, for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the tribulations that ye endure,

in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Not because we have no right, but that we might give ourselves an example to you, in order to imitate us.

From which some having swerved have turned aside to empty talk,

And I have gratitude to the Christ--Jesus our Lord--who empowered me, because he considered me faithful, having placed in service

And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Laying these things down to the brothers, thou will be a good helper of Jesus Christ, reared up in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine that thou have followed.

For we both labor and are reproached for this, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of the faithful.

which has condemnation because they have disregarded the original pledge.

For some have already turned aside after Satan.

Those who sin, rebuke in the sight of all, so that the others may also have fear.

And those who have believing masters, let them not disparage them because they are brothers, instead let them serve more because they are believers and beloved--those who are recipients of the benefit. Teach and exhort these things

For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

which some men professing have missed the mark concerning the faith. Grace is with thee. Truly.

I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day

Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

And what thou have heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit thou to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

and their word will have a feeding field like gangrene, of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

But thou have closely followed my doctrine, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,

And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Faithful is the saying. And I want thee to strongly insist about these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to manage good works. These things are good and beneficial to men.

When I will send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus. Be diligence to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to winter there.

hearing of thy love and faith, which thou have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the sanctified,

For we have much joy and encouragement in thy love, because the bowels of the sanctified have been refreshed by thee, brother.

Therefore, though I have much boldness in Christ to command thee that which is befitting,

If then thou have me a partner, accept him as myself.

Yes, brother, let me have a favor of thee in Lord. Refresh my bowels in Lord.

For to which of the heavenly agents did he ever say, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for a Father, and he will be to me for a Son?

Thou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.

For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.