For we must all be made manifest before the judgmentseat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in his body, according to what he did, whether good or bad.

For though I caused you sorrow with the letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I perceive that that letter caused you sorrow, though it was but for a short time.

Although, then, I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong; but that your earnestness for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

Let such a one count upon this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such will we be also in deed when present.

For we do not stretch ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not to you; (for as far as even to you did we come, in the gospel of Christ;)

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye did not receive, or another gospel, which ye did not accept, well might ye bear with it.

And though I am rude in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; but this did we in every respect manifest to you in all things.

Did I commit an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God without charge?

Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to you?

I urged Titus to go to you, and with him I sent the brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many of those who have sinned already, and did not repent of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they committed.

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

for I did not receive it from man nor was I taught it by any man, but it was revealed to me by Jesus Christ.

neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

but no other of the apostles did I see, save James the brother of the Lord.

to whom not even for an hour did we yield by the required subjection, that the truth of the gospel might still remain with you.

I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness come through the Law, then did Christ die for nought.

for as many of you as were baptized into Christ, did put on Christ.

and my trial which was in my flesh ye did not despise nor spurn; but received me as an angel of God, yea, as Christ Jesus.

which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead; and seated him at his own right hand in the heavenly regions,

and you also [he raised up], who were dead through your trespasses and sins,

even when dead through our trespasses, life with Christ,by grace have ye been saved,

But not so did ye learn Christ,

Wherefore he saith, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light."

who, being in the form of God, did not regard it as a thing to be grasped at to be on an equality with God,

holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Notwithstanding, ye did well in sharing with me in my distress.

And he is the head of the body, the church; since he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be in all things preeminent;

having been buried with him in your baptism; in which also ye were raised to life with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead;

and to you also who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he given life together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

and whatever ye do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, the Father, through him.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the coming wrath.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

For God did not call us to live in uncleanness, but in purity.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first;

for God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

neither did we eat any mans bread for nought, but were working with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.

though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a doer of outrage; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief;

but she that giveth herself up to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Bear in mind Jesus Christ of the seed of David, as raised from the dead, according to my gospel;

I charge thee before God, and Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom;

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; the Lord will reward him according to his works;

The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed, and preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the bath of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

For to which of the angels did he ever say: "Thou art my Son, I this day have begotten thee?" and again: "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?"

For not to angels did he put in subjection the world to come, of which we are speaking.

Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith: "Today, if ye hear his voice,

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

When it is said, "Today, if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,"

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, except to those who were disobedient?

For to us were glad tidings addressed, as well as to them; but the word which was heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

Since then it still remaineth for some to enter into it, and they to whom the glad tidings of it were first brought did not enter in because of disobedience,

he again appointeth a certain day, "Today"saying in David so long a time after, as hath before been said"Today, if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts."

For he that hath entered into his rest, hath himself rested from his works, as God did from his own.

Thus Christ did not glorify himself to be made highpriest, but he who said to him, "Thou art my Son, I this day have begotten thee;"

Let us then, leaving the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, press on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

of the doctrine of baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of everlasting judgment.

who hath not necessity daily, as the highpriests, to offer up sacrifice first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who by his everlasting spirit offered himself without spot to God, purify your conscience from dead works, for the worship of the living God!

for a testament is of force after men are dead, since it is of no force while the testator is living.

For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made with hands, which is only a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God in our behalf.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it though dead he yet speaketh.

Wherefore there sprang even from one, and him become as dead, a race like the stars of heaven in multitude, and like the sand by the seashore which cannot be numbered.

accounting that God is able even to raise from the dead; whence also he did figuratively receive him back.

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disobeyed, after having received the spies with peace.

Women received back their dead by a resurrection; but others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

See that ye refuse not him who speaketh. For if they did not escape, who refused him who spoke his will on earth, much more shall not we, if we turn away from him who speaketh from heaven;

Jesus Christ is yesterday and today the same, and for ever.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of an everlasting covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and remains there, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deed.

Hearken, my beloved brethren. Did not God choose the poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

So also faith, if it hath not works, is dead in itself.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city, and spend a year there and traffic, and get gain,

Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, begot us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

who through him have faith in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously;

who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

For to this end was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might indeed be judged according to men in the flesh, but might live according to God in the spirit.

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but had been made eyewitnesses of his majesty.

not as Cain was of the Evil One, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brothers righteous.

My children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

These are the rocks in your feasts of love, feasting together without fear, feeding only themselves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; trees in late autumn, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead; and he laid his right hand on me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,

and he that liveth; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore; and I have the keys of death and the underworld.

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived again:

And to the angel of the church in Sardes write: These things saith he who hath the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

And the rest of men, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can neither see; nor hear, nor walk;

and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified.

And some from among the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations, will look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not suffer their dead bodies to be put into a tomb.

And the nations were enraged, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy the destroyers of the earth.

And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should even speak, and cause that all who did not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they shall rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.

And the second poured out his vial into the sea; and it became blood, as of a dead man, and every living thing died, that was in the sea.

And the rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of the things written in the books, according to their works.