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

with good will, even as though serving the Lord and not men.

And remember that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, that shall he receive again of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

Put on the armour of God, that ye may stand steadfast against the crafty assaults of the devil.

For this cause, take unto you the armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand perfect in all things.

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

Peace be with the brethren, and love with faith from God the father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with you and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God with all remembrance of you,

and am surely certified of this, that he which began a good work in you shall go forth with it until the day of Jesus Christ,

For God beareth me record how greatly I long after you all from the very heart-root in Jesus Christ.

filled with the fruits of righteousness, which fruits come by Jesus Christ unto the glory and laud of God.

and in nothing fearing your adversaries: which is to them a token of perdition, and to you a sign of salvation, and that of God.

Which, being in the shape of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.

Wherefore God hath exalted him, and given him a name above all names:

and that all tongues should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord unto the praise of God the father.

For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.

that ye may be faultless, and pure, and the sons of God; without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation, among which see that ye shine as lights in the world,

I trust in the Lord Jesus for to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know what case ye stand in.

and no doubt he was sick, and that nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him: not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow.

For we are circumcision which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

and might be found in him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law: But that which springeth of the faith which is in Christ. I mean, the righteousness which cometh of God through faith

and press unto that mark appointed, to obtain the reward of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus wise minded: and if ye be otherwise minded, I pray God open even this unto you.

whose end is damnation, whose God is their belly and whose glory is to their shame, which are worldly minded.

Be not careful: but in all things show your petition unto God in prayer and supplication with giving of thanks.

And the peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts, and minds in Christ Jesus.

which ye have both learned and received, heard and also seen in me: those things do, and the God of peace shall be with you.

I received all, and have plenty. I was even filled after that I have received of Epaphroditus, that which came from you, an odor that smelleth sweet, a sacrifice accepted and pleasant to God.

My God fulfill all your needs through his glorious riches in Jesus Christ.

Unto God and our father be praise forever more. Amen.

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

To the saints which are at Colossae, and brethren that believe in Christ. Grace be with you and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you in our prayers,

which is come unto you, even as it is into all the world, and is fruitful as it is among you, from the first day in the which ye heard of it, and had experience in the grace of God in the truth,

that ye might walk worthy of the Lord in all things that please, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God

which is the image of the invisible God, first begotten of all creatures:

whereof am I made a minister according to the ordinance of God, which ordinance was given me unto you ward, to fulfill the word of God:

to whom God would make known the glorious riches of this mystery among the gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

that their hearts might be comforted and knit together in love, and in all riches of full understanding, for to know the mystery of God the father and of Christ:

in that ye are buried with him through baptism, in whom ye are also risen again through faith, that is wrought by the operation of God which raised him from death.

and holdeth not the head: whereof all the body by joints and couples receiveth nourishment, and is knit together, and increaseth with the increasing that cometh of God.

If ye be then risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the righthand of God.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

for which thing's sakes the wrath of God cometh on the children of unbelief.

Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering,

and the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which peace ye are called in one body: and see that ye be thankful.

And all things, whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.

Servants, be obedient unto your bodily masters in all things: not with eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart fearing God.

praying also for us, that God open unto us the door of utterance, that we may speak the mystery of Christ - wherefore I am in bonds -

and Jesus which is called Justus, which are of the circumcision. These only are my workfellows unto the kingdom of God, which were unto my consolation.

Epaphras the servant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and always laboureth fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect, and full in all that is the will of God.

Paul, Silvanus and Timothy. Unto the congregation of the Thessalonians, in God the father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:

because we know brethren beloved of God, how that ye are elect.

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord, not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but your faith also which ye have unto God, spread herself abroad in all quarters, so greatly that it needeth not us to speak anything at all:

for they themselves show of you what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from images for to serve the living and true God,

but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated at Philippi - as ye well know - then were we bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God, with much striving.

but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words - as ye well know - neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record:

so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

Ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail. For we laboured day and night, because we would not be grievous unto any of you, and preached unto you the gospel of God.

Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

that ye would walk worthy of God, which hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

For this cause thank we God without ceasing, because that when ye received of us the word, wherewith God was preached, ye received it not as the word of man: but even as it was, indeed, the word of God; which worketh in you that believe.

For ye brethren became followers of the congregations of God which in Jewry are in Christ Jesus: for ye have suffered like things of your kinsmen, as we ourselves have suffered of the Jews,

which as they killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, even so have they persecuted us, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men:

and forbid us to preach unto the gentiles, that they might be saved, to fulfill their sins always: For the wrath of God is come on them, even to the utmost.

and sent Timothy our brother and minister of God, and our labour fellow in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you over your faith,

But now lately when Timothy came from you unto us and declared to us your faith, and your love, and how that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we desire to see you.

For what thanks can we recompense to God again for you, over all the joy that we joy for your sakes before our God,

God himself, our father, and our Lord Jesus Christ guide our journey unto you:

to make your hearts that they might be stable and unblamable in holiness before God our father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.

Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God.

For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the heathen, which know not God,

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness: but unto holiness.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spirit among you.

But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you. For ye are taught of God to love one another.

and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with 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 them also which sleep by Jesus, will God bring again with him.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall arise first:

For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but to obtain salvation by the means of our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that none recompense evil for evil unto any man: but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

In all things give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Examine all things, and keep that which is good.

The very God of peace sanctify you throughout. And I pray God that your whole spirit, soul, and body, be kept faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, Silvanus and Timothy. Unto the congregation of the Thessalonians, which are in God our father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with you and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are bound to thank God always for you brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and every one of you swimmeth in love toward another between yourselves,

so that we ourselves rejoice of you in the congregations of God, over your patience and faith in all your persecutions, and tribulations that ye suffer:

which is a token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye are counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer.

It is verily a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,

in flaming fire, rendering vengeance unto them that know not God, and to them that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Wherefore, we pray always for you that our God make you worthy of the calling, and fulfill all delectation of goodness, and the work of faith, with power:

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

which is an adversary, and is exalted above all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he shall sit as God in the temple of God, and show himself as God.

And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe lies:

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, for because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctifying of the spirit; And through believing the truth: