He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself.

Let your graciousness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Do what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

Still, you did well by sharing with me in my hardship.

Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Timothy our brother:

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy

For everything was created by Him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through Him and for Him.

He is before all things,
and by Him all things hold together.

and through Him to reconcile
everything to Himself
by making peace
through the blood of His cross—
whether things on earth or things in heaven.

But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him—

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ.

For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ.

and you have been filled by Him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah.

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; He triumphed over them by Him.

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his unspiritual mind.

He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.

All these regulations refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are commands and doctrines of men.

Although these have a reputation of wisdom by promoting ascetic practices, humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.

When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful.

Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism.

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Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.

And tell Archippus, “Pay attention to the ministry you have received in the Lord, so that you can accomplish it.”

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

knowing your election, brothers loved by God.

On the contrary, after we had previously suffered, and we were treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, we were emboldened by our God to speak the gospel of God to you in spite of great opposition.

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but rather God, who examines our hearts.

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are always completing the number of their sins, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

Therefore, when we could no longer stand it, we thought it was better to be left alone in Athens.

so that no one will be shaken by these persecutions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

For this reason, when I could no longer stand it, I also sent him to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be for nothing.

About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

so that you may walk properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For we say this to you by a revelation from the Lord: We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming will certainly have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep.

Then we who are still alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will always be with the Lord.

About the times and the seasons: Brothers, you do not need anything to be written to you.

So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious.

But since we belong to the day, we must be serious and put the armor of faith and love on our chests, and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation.

and to regard them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

And we exhort you, brothers: warn those who are irresponsible, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brothers.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

It is a clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment that you will be counted worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you also are suffering,

These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from His glorious strength

in that day when He comes to be glorified by His saints and to be admired by all those who have believed, because our testimony among you was believed.

And in view of this, we always pray for you that our God will consider you worthy of His calling, and will, by His power, fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith,

so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

not to be easily upset in mind or troubled, either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter as if from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has come.

And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time.

and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and will bring him to nothing with the brightness of His coming.

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

so that all will be condemned—those who did not believe the truth but enjoyed unrighteousness.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, either by our message or by our letter.

May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you,

and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not all have faith.

we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and struggled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ that quietly working, they may eat their own food.

And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don’t associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with all of you.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you.

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.

They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Timothy, my son, I am giving you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies previously made about you, so that by them you may strongly engage in battle,

Hymenaeus and Alexander are among them, and I have delivered them to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,

who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead, she is to be silent.

But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues in faith, love, and holiness, with good judgment.

This saying is trustworthy: “If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble work.”

An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

Deacons, likewise, should be worthy of respect, not hypocritical, not drinking a lot of wine, not greedy for money,

And they must also be tested first; if they prove blameless, then they can serve as deacons.

Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.

Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households competently.

But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to act in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great:

He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated in the Spirit,
seen by angels,
preached among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.

They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

since it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.

If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching that you have followed.

Let no one despise your youth; instead, you should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you; it was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

Practice these things; be committed to them, so that your progress may be evident to all.

Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Command this also, so they won’t be blamed.