which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,

Wherefore I beseech you not to faint through my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,

Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption.

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.

Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;

and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them,

See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.

but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.

and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also.

who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

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

but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord: to write the same things to you, to me is not irksome, and for you safe.

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.

and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith,

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

for also in Thessalonica once and even twice ye sent to me for my need.

Not that I seek gift, but I seek fruit abounding to your account.

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

For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.

For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ;

Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,

(which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to the satisfaction of the flesh.

have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;

Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds,

wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is everything, and in all.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Whatsoever ye do, labour at it heartily, as doing it to the Lord, and not to men;

For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;

For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which we had to you, that it has not been in vain;

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? are not ye also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

night and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may see your face, and perfect what is lacking in your faith?

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

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

He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that ye should be written to,

for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief by night.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief:

for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

quench not the Spirit;

do not lightly esteem prophecies;

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

that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because it will not be unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;

Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for faith is not the portion of all.

Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;

nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:

not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

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

But ye, brethren, do not faint in well-doing.

But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;

and do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines,

desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm.

knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,