For I, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, I, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness is by law, then Christ has died for nothing.

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be blessed.

but that by law no one is justified with God is evident, because The just shall live on the principle of faith;

Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance be on the principle of law, it is no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.

But a mediator is not of one, but God is one.

Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;

for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.

but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;

but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

and my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw you into confusion.

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teaches in all good things.

Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall sow, that also shall he reap.

but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if we do not faint, we shall reap.

So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.

And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace upon them and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, to the saints and faithful in Christ Jesus who are at Ephesus.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;

having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him,

but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;

So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom ye also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,

of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.

and to enlighten all with the knowledge of what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,

in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,

and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God.

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;

being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption.

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

giving thanks at all times for all things to him who is God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;

knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free.

Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:

For this reason take to you the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.

Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;

Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,

having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus.

being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.

and that the most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God fearlessly.

Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.

and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

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

for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.

that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.

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

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

As many therefore as are perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)

Be careful about nothing; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

and the peace of God, which surpasses every understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts by Christ Jesus.

For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.

What ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

But I have all things in full supply and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things sent from you, an odour of sweet savour, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to God.

But my God shall abundantly supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But to our God and Father be glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

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

to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ which are in Colosse. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ continually when praying for you,

which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;

who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;

of which I became minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given me towards you to complete the word of God,

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

to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;