submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men

(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a freeman).

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

Therefore take to yourselves the whole armor of God, that you 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 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 from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ,

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

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

Some indeed even preach Christ because of envy and strife, and some also of good will.

and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,

Therefore God has highly exalted Him, and has given Him a 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 works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,

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

For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;

and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,

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

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.

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

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things.

Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.

But I have all, and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things which you sent, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing to God.

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

Now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

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

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

which has come to you as it has also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit, even also among you, since the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth,

that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.

of which I became a minister, according to the administration of God given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God;

For to them 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,

that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.

and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God.

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

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

on account of which things' sake the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience,

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you also are called in one body, and be thankful.

And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.

Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound,

and greetings from Jesus, who is called Justus, those being of the circumcision. These alone are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who became a comfort to me.

Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

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

We give thanks to God for you always, making mention of you in our prayers,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father,

knowing, beloved brothers, your election of God.

For from you the Word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to speak anything.

For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,

But also suffering before, being insulted in Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much agony.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

So affectionately longing for you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.

For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. For laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.

You and God are witnesses how holily and justly and blamelessly we were to you who believe,

that you should walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.

And for this cause we thank God without ceasing, that when you received the Word of hearing, of God, you welcomed it as the Word of God, not as a word of men, but as it is, truly the Word of God, which also effectually works in you who believe.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

But now when Timothy came from you to us and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us (as we also you),

For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

And may God Himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you.

in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who also has given us His Holy Spirit.

But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.

For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Prove all things, hold fast to the good.

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

so much so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure.

For this is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer,

since it is a righteous thing with God to repay tribulation to those who trouble you,

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of the calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,

that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.