For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.

You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

From this time on let no man be a trouble to me; because my body is marked with the marks of Jesus.

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

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

Peace be 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 the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;

These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

Having no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.

For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,

Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.

Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

And when this letter has been made public among you, let the same be done in the church of Laodicea; and see that you have the letter from Laodicea.

Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit:

Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

For which reason we made attempts to come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; but Satan kept us from coming.

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

Keep from every form of evil.

And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,

Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;

Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

So then, brothers, be strong in purpose, and keep the teaching which has been given to you by word or by letter from us.

And that we may be made free from foolish and evil men; for not all have faith.

But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.

These words of love to you at the end are in my writing, Paul's writing, and this is the mark of every letter from me.

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin.

For those who have done good work as Deacons get for themselves a good position and become free from fear in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;

And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.

For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.

To keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

Through which some, who gave their minds to it, have been turned away from the faith. Grace be with you.