Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ also (though he is the saviour of the Body) is the head of the church;

as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to be subject to their husbands in every respect.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

For no one ever hates his flesh; no, he nourishes and cherishes it (just as Christ does the church

This is a profound symbol, I mean as regards Christ and the church.

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

Peace and love with faith be to the brothers from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

PAUL and Timotheus, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, as well as to the bishops and deacons:

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

of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

(God is my witness that I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself!)

so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,

your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

throughout the whole of the praetorian guard and everywhere else it is recognized that I am imprisoned on account of my connexion with Christ,

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;

but the former proclaim Christ for their own ends, with mixed motives, intending to annoy me as I lie in prison.

What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

The outcome of all this, I know, will be my release, as you continue to pray for me, and as I am provided with the Spirit of Jesus Christ ??20 my eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. Whether that means life or death, no matter!

As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.

Thus you will have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus over me ??over my return to you.

Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.

and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.

We are the true Circumcision, we who worship God in spirit, we who pride ourselves on Christ Jesus, we who rely upon no outward privilege.

But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;

indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.

Not that I have already attained this or am already perfect, but I press forward to appropriate it, because I have been appropriated myself by Christ Jesus.

to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.

For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,

so shall God's peace, that surpasses all our dreams, keep guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

My God will supply all your own needs from his wealth in Glory in Christ Jesus.

Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers beside me salute you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and brother Timotheus,

to the consecrated and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: grace and peace to you from God our Father.

We always thank the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you,

since we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints,

You got that lesson from our beloved fellow-servant Epaphras, a minister of Christ who is faithful to your interests;

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

This is the Christ we proclaim; we train everyone and teach everyone the full scope of this knowledge, in order to set everyone before God mature in Christ;

May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ,

for although I am absent in body I am with you in spirit, and it is a joy to note your steadiness and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

It is in Christ that the entire Fulness of deity has settled bodily,

in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,

All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like

Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.

In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

Also, let the peace of Christ be supreme within your hearts ??that is why you have been called as members of the one Body. And you must be thankful.

Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.

remember, you will receive from the Lord the inheritance which is your due; serve Christ your Lord and Master,

and pray for me as well, that God may give me an opening for the word, to speak of the open secret of Christ for which I am in custody.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace and peace to you.

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

we never sought honour from men, from you or from anybody else, though as apostles of Christ we had the power of claiming to be men of weight;

for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,

I sent Timotheus our brother, a minister of God in the gospel of Christ, for your strengthening and encouragement in the faith,

The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ!

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. [Amen.]

PAUL and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

With regard to the arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ and our muster before him, I beg you, brothers,

it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

May the Lord direct your hearts towards God's love and towards Christ's patience!

Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

Now in the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such persons to keep quiet, to do their work and earn their own living.

'The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.'

Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our Hope,

to Timotheus his lawful son in the faith: grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry,

and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires.

It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life.

the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": ??in due time this was attested,

For those who do good service as deacons win a good position for themselves as well as great freedom in the faith of Christ Jesus.

Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

Refuse to put young widows on the list, for when their wanton desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry