for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.

Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

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

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

Now touching the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

and they glorified God in me.

But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man's person)-- they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me:

But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

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

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham,'saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one.

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.

but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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 hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

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

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

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

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

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

if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;

whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

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

till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

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

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:

knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

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

Peace be 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 upon all my remembrance of you,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;

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

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:

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

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.