till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

But you have not so learned Christ,

But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.

and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father,

being subject one to another in the fear of Christ.

for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to husbands in every thing.

Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it,

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church;

This is a great mystery; but I speak of Christ and the church.

Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,

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

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

The grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with constancy.

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

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

having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

For God is my witness, how much I desire you all with the tender affections of Christ Jesus.

that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ,

filled with the fruit of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the Praetorium and in all other places,

For some indeed preach Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good will;

but those from contention preach Christ not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for my bonds.

What then? nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached, and in this I rejoice. But I also will rejoice;

for I know that this will result in salvation to me, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Because for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

But I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far better;

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my coming again to you.

Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

because it was given to you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for him,

If therefore there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort in love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and compassions,

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

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

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

for all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

We are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and trust not in the flesh,

But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ.

But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ

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

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.

For many walk, of whom I told you often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

And may the peace of God which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

And God shall fully supply all your need, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

to the saints in Colosse and the faithful brothers in Christ. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father.

We thank the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints,

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

Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and supply the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church,

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

For if I am absent in the flesh, still I am present in spirit with you, rejoicing and beholding your order and the strength of your faith in Christ.

As therefore you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,

which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's.

If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?

IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God;

For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God;

when Christ your life shall be made manifest, then shall you also be made manifest in glory.

where there are not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, servant, freeman, but Christ is all things and in all.

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if any one has a charge against any, as Christ forgave you, so [do] you also,

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for which you have been called in one body; and be thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching with all wisdom, and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God,

knowing that you will receive from the Lord the recompense of the inheritance. You serve Christ the Lord;

praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a door of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am bound,

Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

PAUL and Sylvanus [Silas] and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you and peace.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God even our Father,

neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;

For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which were in Judea, for you also suffered the same things from your countrymen, which they did from the Jews

and sent Timothy, our brother and God's co-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you in behalf of your faith,

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

give thanks on every occasion; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to us.

And may the God of peace himself purify you wholly, and your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

PAUL and Silvanus [Silas] and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

And we beseech you, brothers, in respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being brought together to him,

to which he called you by our gospel, to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us eternal consolation and a good hope by grace,

And may the Lord direct your hearts in the love of God, and in the patience of Christ.

And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

we charge and exhort such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, to work quietly, and eat their own bread.

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

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope,

to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,

and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.