For as many as be promises of God, in him is the Yes, and in him the Truly, for glory to God through us.

Therefore I beseech you to affirm love for him.

And thanks is to God who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and who makes manifest the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place, through us.

Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him.

And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

So that henceforth we know no man according to flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer.

For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Because, if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed, but as we spoke all things in truth to you, so also our boast to Titus became truth.

And his bowels are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how ye received him with fear and trembling.

And we sent along with him the brother whose praise in the good-news is throughout all the congregations.

Do ye look at things according to appearance. If any man has convinced himself to be of Christ, let him consider this again of himself, that, as he is of Christ, so also are we of Christ.

Any man of whom I have sent to you, did I exploit you through him?

I encouraged Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus exploit you in anything? Did we not walk in the same spirit, not in the same steps?

For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead),

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ to another good-news,

But even if we, or an agent from heaven, should preach a good-news to you contrary to what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

As we have said before, I now also say again, if any man preaches a good-news to you contrary to what ye received, let him be accursed.

to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood,

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days.

But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to the face, because he was blameworthy.

And the other Jews also joined in hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas went along with their hypocrisy.

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

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

But let him who is taught in the word share in all good things with him who teaches.

Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished before him in love.

for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved.

in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will.

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

which he wrought in the Christ, having raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in the heavenly things,

And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church,

which is his body, the fulfillment of him who fills all in all.

because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father.

Now to him who is able to do above extraordinary--above all things that we ask or think--according to the power that works in us,

to him is the glory in the church in Christ Jesus for all generations of the age of the ages. Truly.

But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head--the Christ--

if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus,

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.

And ye masters, do the same things to them, easing up the threats, knowing also that the master of you yourselves is in the heavens, and there is no partiality from him.

Because to you it was granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,

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

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.

Therefore I sent him more urgently, so that having seen him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in Lord with all gladness, and hold such men esteemed.

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--

to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created

And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.

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

and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him whether things upon the earth or things in the heavens.

in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and unblameable before him.

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as ye were taught, abounding in it with thankfulness.

Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily.

And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority.

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 you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions,

When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory.

and having put on the new man, being renewed in knowledge according to an image of him who created him,

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.

Aristarchus my fellow prisoner salutes you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom ye received orders, if he comes to you, welcome him),

For I testify about him, that he has much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

So that, whether we are awake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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

Now we ask you, brothers, on behalf of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,

who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.

And now ye know that which restrains, for him to be revealed in his own time.

For even when we were with you we commanded you this, that if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

And if any man does not obey our word by this letter, note that man, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

But because of this I obtained mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

Do not rebuke an elder man, but entreat him as a father, younger men as brothers,

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

(may the Lord grant him to find mercy from Lord in that day), and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou know very well.

If we endure, we will also reign together. If we renounce him, that man will also renounce us.

and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

Only Luke is with me. Having taken Mark, bring him with thee, for he is useful to me for service.

Alexander the coppersmith did many evil things to me. May the Lord repay him according to his works,

They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

And thou should welcome him, that is, my bowels.

For perhaps because of this he departed for an hour, so that thou might receive him back forever,

If then thou have me a partner, accept him as myself.

For to which of the heavenly agents did he ever say, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for a Father, and he will be to me for a Son?

And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

But a certain man has somewhere testified, saying, What is man, that thou remember him? Or a son of man, that thou help him?

Thou made him a little something less than the heavenly agents. Thou crowned him with glory and honor.

Thou subordinated all things under his feet. For in subordinating all things to him, he left nothing not subordinate to him. But now we do not yet see all things subordinated to him.

For it was fitting for him, through whom are all things, and because of whom are all things, having brought many sons to glory, to make the pathfinder of their salvation fully perfect through sufferings.

And again, I will be a man who has trusted in him. And again, Behold, I and the children that God has given me.

Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with strong shouting and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence,

And having been fully perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him,

and who fell away, to restore again to repentance, crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and disgracing him publicly.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, also blessed him.

for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.