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

Or did the Word of God go out from you? Or did it reach only to you?

But if Christ is proclaimed, that He was raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruit of those who slept.

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

The first man was out of earth, earthy; the second Man was the Lord from Heaven.

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

who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us,

And I wrote this to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from the ones of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother. But taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, like some, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.

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

Then being always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord;

then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.

Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home.

Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you

Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

And being present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone. For the brothers from Macedonia made up completely my need. And in every way I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will keep myself.

But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For you endure if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes you in the face.

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

I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city; in dangers in the wilderness; in dangers on the sea; in dangers among false brothers.

For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

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

who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father,

I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel,

But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it except by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me by His grace,

But from those who seemed to be something (what kind they were then does not matter to me; God does not accept the face of man), for those seeming important conferred nothing to me.

For before some came from James, he ate with the nations. But when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");

But I say, Over so long a time the heir is an infant, he does not differ from a slave, though being lord of all;

which things are being allegorized; for these are the two covenants, one indeed from Mount Sinai bringing forth to slavery, which is Hagar.

But the Jerusalem from above is free, who is the mother of us all.

you who are justified by Law are deprived of all effect from Christ; you fell from grace.

This persuasion is not from Him who calls you.

For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.

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

which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead, and He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

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

and to bring to light what is the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a freeman).

Peace 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 from the Lord Jesus Christ.

for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we are looking for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as regards giving and receiving, except you alone.

But I have all, and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things which you sent, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing to God.

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

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

For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son;

And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.

if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,

the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.

buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.

and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God.

If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances:

knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.

and greetings from Jesus, who is called Justus, those being of the circumcision. These alone are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who became a comfort to me.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, in God the Father and in 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 sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to speak anything.

For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for His Son from Heaven (whom He raised from the dead), Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.

Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be so with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.

But, my brothers, when we were taken away from you for an hour's time (in presence, not in heart), more abundantly we were eager with much desire to see your face.

But now when Timothy came from you to us and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us (as we also you),

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Abstain from every appearance of evil.

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

and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power,

who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,

And pray that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not have the faith.

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

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us.

to Timothy, my own son in the faith. Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

from which some, having swerved, have turned aside to foolish talking,

But he must also have a good report from those on the outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,

meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

to Timothy, my dearly beloved child. Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,

Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.