For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.

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

And after coming he preached good-news, peace to you, to those far off and to those near,

So then ye are no more alien and foreign, but fellow citizens of the sanctified, and belonging to the household of God.

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

since indeed ye heard of the administration of the grace of God, which was given to me for you,

For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news.

Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power.

To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good-news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

So that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principal offices and the positions of authority in the heavenly things, through the church,

and to become aware of the love of the Christ, which transcends knowledge, so that ye may be filled in all the fullness of God.

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

Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a standard of stature of the fullness of the Christ.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye are sealed for a day of redemption.

And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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

Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

Knowing that whatever good thing each may do, he will receive this from the Lord, whether bondman or freeman.

Put on the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Because of this take ye up the full armor of God, so that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

and having shod your feet in preparation of the good-news of peace.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

and for me, so that utterance may be given to me in boldness in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news,

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

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

I thank my God upon every memory of you,

for your participation in the good-news from the first day until now.

Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good-news, you all being partners with me of the grace.

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

having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God.

But I want you to know, brothers, that the things in respect to me have come more for the advancement of the good-news,

Actually some also preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will.

But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good-news.

Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o

And not being frightened in anything by those who oppose, which is indeed a sign of destruction to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.

Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name,

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

For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child to a father, he served with me for the good-news.

For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith--the righteousness from God based on faith--

I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

As many therefore as are perfect should think this way. And if ye think anything differently, this also God will reveal to you.

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

Yes, I ask thee also, genuine yokefellow, help them--the women who labored with me in the good-news--with Clement also, and the rest of my co-workmen whose names are in the book of life.

Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.

And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.

And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good-news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only,

But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.

And my God will fill your every need according to his wealth in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now to our God and Father is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: 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, always praying about you,

because of the hope being reserved for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good-news

being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,

who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Because in him it was considered good for all the fullness dwell,

If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.

Of which I became a helper according to the administration of God, which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God,

To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

So that their hearts may be encouraged, having been united together in love, and for all wealth of the full assurance of understanding, to knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father of the Christ.

Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God.

If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.

Because of which the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience,

Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,

And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.

And all things, anything whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all in the name of Lord Jesus, expressing thanks to the God and Father through him.

Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

Praying simultaneously about us also, so that God may open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound,

and Jesus who is called Justus, these being the only fellow workmen from the circumcision for the kingdom of God, men who became a comfort to me.

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

We thank God always about all of you, making recollection of you in our prayers,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Knowing, beloved brothers, your selection by God,

because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.

For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and TRUE God,

But having suffered before and been mistreated in Philippi, as ye know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God within much conflict.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.