Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the deep.

And I was let down in a basket through a window through the wall, and escaped their hands.

For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

I am coming to you this third time. In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.

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

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

Then through fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so as even Barnabas was led away with their dissembling.

knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.

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

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness is through law, then Christ died without cause.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations through faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all nations be blessed."

so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Why then the Law? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come to those to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in the Mediator's hand.

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

There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

So that you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

But you know that through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you before,

But, indeed, he out of the slave-woman has been born according to flesh, and he out of the free woman through the promise;

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness out of faith.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but faith working through love.

meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,

so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

in whom you also are built together for a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.

that the nations should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partaker of His promise in Christ through the gospel.

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through His faith.

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling,

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

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

And masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening, knowing that your Master also is in Heaven. There is no respect of persons with Him.

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

For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tendernesses and mercies,

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.

For all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ.

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,

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

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.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins.

For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him.

And through Him having made peace through the blood of His cross, it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to Himself through Him, whether the things on earth or the things in Heaven.

in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish, and without charge in His sight,

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;

Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to 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.

where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, slave or freeman, but Christ is all things in all.

But he who does wrong shall receive justice for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons.

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,

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

then, my brothers, we were comforted over you, through your faith, even in all our affliction and needs;

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.

and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.

Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

For we hear that there are some who walk disorderly among you, not working at all, but being busybodies.

Now we command and exhort those who are such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

For God is one, and there is one Mediator of God and of men, the Man Christ Jesus,

But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.

Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and households well.

speaking lies in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience,

For it is sanctified through the Word of God and prayer.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except before two or three witnesses.

Let as many slaves as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But it is now having been manifested by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has made death of no effect, bringing life and immortality to light through the gospel;

Guard the good Deposit given through the Holy Spirit indwelling in us.

And their word will eat like a gangrene; among whom are Hymeneus and Philetus,

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.

But they shall proceed no further. For their foolishness shall be plain to all, as theirs also became.

and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear.

And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths.

Now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day; and not to me only, but also to all those who love His appearing.

At my first answer no one was beside me, but all deserted me. May it not be laid to their charge.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and that all the nations might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.

To the pure all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.

Slaves are to be obedient to their masters, to please them well in all things, not talking against,

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.