Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the desires thereof.

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey? Whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, will also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again unto fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Moreover the scripture saith to Pharoah, For this very thing have I raised thee up, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name may be declared through all the earth.

For God hath shut up all together in disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

That I should be the servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministring the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

These things, brethren, I have by a figure transferred to myself and Apollos, for your sakes; that ye may learn in us, not to think of men above what is here written, that ye may not be puffed up for one above another.

Now some are puffed up, as if I would not come to you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord permit, and will know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.

And are ye puffed up? Have ye not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed, might be taken from among you?

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that even they that have wives, be as if they had none: And they that weep, as if they wept not;

Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. And if any one think he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up:

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified from God, that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise, if the dead rise not.

Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

So that on the contrary ye should rather forgive and comfort him, lest such an one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

Knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, will also raise us up by Jesus, and present us with you.

For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; not that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

I knew a man in Christ, above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not; God knoweth) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Yea, I knew such a man (whether in the body or out of the body, I know not, God knoweth) That he was caught up into paradise,

And lest I should be lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be lifted up.

Forgive me this wrong. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you: yet I will not be burdensom to you; for I seek not yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Neither did I go up to Jerusalem, to them that were apostles before me, but I immediately went into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

I went up by revelation, and explained to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but severally to those of eminence, lest by any means I should run, or should have run in vain.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up together unto the faith which was to be revealed.

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.

Ye did run well: who hath hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?

through his great love wherewith he loved us, Hath quickened us together with Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses, (by grace ye are saved) And hath raised us up together,

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

Who being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honour

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto the Lord:

your love to all the saints) For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ for his body, which is the church:

Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Let none defraud you of your reward by a voluntary humility and worship of angels, intruding into the things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: but wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting:

Not a new convert, left being puffed up, he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

The mystery of godliness is the pillar and ground of the truth, and without controversy a great thing: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified by the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.

having been the wife of one husband, Well reported of for good works, if she hath brought up children, if she hath lodged strangers, if she hath washed the feet of the saints, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.

He is puffed up, knowing nothing, but being sick of questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, contention, evil speakings,

Treasuring up for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, to stir up the gift of God which is in thee, by the laying on of my hands.

Traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;

For I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand.

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

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work:

And to the beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the church which is in thy house:

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and being heard from his fears; Tho' he was a son,

became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him,

And it is still far more evident, because another priest is raised up, after the likeness of Melchidek, Who was made not after the law of a carnal commandment,

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

For every high priest is ordained to offer up gifts and sacrifices; whence it was necessary, that this also should have somewhat to offer.

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son:

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

Wherefore Lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees:

Looking diligently, lest any one fall from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled: Lest there be any fornicator or profane person,

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves; for they watch over your souls, as they that must give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with groans: for that is unprofitable for you.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?

Behold we put bits into the horses mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.

Humble yourselves in the sight of God, and he will lift you up.

Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

Your gold and silver is cankered, and the canker of them shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire: ye have laid up treasure in the last days.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be watchful and hope perfectly for the grace that is brought you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

but chosen of God and precious, Ye also as living stones are built up, a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God thro' Jesus Christ.

In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may, without the word, be won by the conversation of the wives,

For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: but if it begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Yea I think it right, so long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by reminding you:

This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

These are spots in your feasts of love, while they banquet with you feeding themselves without fear: clouds without water, driven about of winds; trees without leaves, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

But ye, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying thro' the Holy Spirit.

After this I saw, and behold a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, as of a trumpet talking with me, said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

And I wept much, that none was found worthy to open the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith to me, Weep not;

For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them, and will lead them to living fountains of water: and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.

And the smoke of the incense came up before God out of the angels hand with the prayers of the saints.

And the first sounded, and there was hail, and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up.

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Seal up the things which the seven thunders have uttered, and write them not.

And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his right hand toward heaven,

And I went to the angel, saying to him, Give me the little book. And he saith to me, Take and eat it up, and it will make thy belly bitter, but it will be sweet as honey in thy mouth.