Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth:

As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you;

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;

The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones:

Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead.

Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross

And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.

If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,

And all, whatever ye do, work ye from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

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

For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing.

For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;

And to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom be raised from the dead, Jesus, saving us from coming wrath.

For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit:

For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing.

Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.

And we, brethren, having been separated from you for a due measure of time, in face, not in heart, we were the more excessively zealous to see your face with much eager desire.

And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you:

Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:

For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first:

Keep away from all appearance of evil.

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

And to you being pressed a release with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power,

Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.

But the Lord is faithful, who supports you, and will watch from the evil.

And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.

And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

To Timothy, genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection.

And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser.

And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;

Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth.

Against an elder receive not an accusation from without, except from two or three witnesses.

Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.

For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:

To Timothy, dearly beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and christ Jesus our Lord.

I have grace to God, whom I serve from the forefathers in pure consciousness, as I have continual remembrance concerning thee in my prayers night and day;

Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

And what thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these things lay by for faithful men, who will be sufficient to teach others also.

Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news:

Truly the firm foundation of God has stood, having this seal, The Lord knows them being his. And, Let every one naming the name of Christ remove from iniquity.

If therefore any cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel for honour, consecrated, and useful for the master, prepared for every good work.

And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.

That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will.

Expulsions, sufferings, which were to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what expulsions I endured: and the Lord delivered me from all.

And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus.

And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save for his heavenly kingdom: to whom the glory for the times of times. Amen.

To Titus, genuine child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Not holding to Jewish fictions, and commands of men, having turned away from the truth.

The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people. zealous of good works.

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

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.

For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world.

For he said somewhere of the seventh thus, And God ceased in the seventh day from all his works.

For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed for men for things to God, that he bring both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;

Although being a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, having met Abraham returning from the cutting off of the kings, and praised him;

To whom also Abraham divided a tenth from all; (first truly interpreted King of justice, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

And they truly of the sons of Levi, receiving the office of priest, have a command to take a tenth part from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, although having come out of the loins of Abraham:

And he not having his descent traced from them received a tenth from Abraham, and praised him having the promises.

And they truly are become many priests, by reason of death being hindered from remaining:

For such a chief priest became us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and being higher than the heavens;

And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?

(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.

Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts besprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.

Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable.

According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to have returned.

Reckoning that God was also able to raise from the dead; whence he also received him in a parable.

Quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, turned away the armies of strangers.

Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection.

See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

And the God of peace, having brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ,

They from Italy greet you. Grace with you all. Amen.

And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed.

Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.

Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

But certain will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith from my works.

Thou seest that faith cooperated with his works, and from works was faith perfected.

Therefore ye see that man is justified from works, and not from faith alone.

Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter?