For the things which are done by them in secret it is base even to mention;

but all things proved to be wrong are made manifest by the light; for every thing which makes manifest is light.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the spirit,

Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

over all, taking the shield of the faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of evil.

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

in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds, that I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.

But if to live in the flesh [is allowed me], I have this fruit of my work, and which I shall choose I know not.

terrified in nothing by the adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God;

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear of in me.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name,

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

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

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

who will change our humble body, and make it like his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to subject all things to himself.

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

Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to your account.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints,

on account of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the true word of the gospel

which is present with you as also in all the world, and is fruitful and increases, as also with you, from the day that you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

for by him were all things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and for him,

if indeed you continue founded and established in the faith, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached in all the creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and supply the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church,

of which I was made a minister according to the dispensation of God given me for you, to complete the word of God,

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

for which I also labor, striving with his power which operates in me with power.

in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you have also been raised together through the effectual faith of God who raised him from the dead;

having blotted out what was written by the hand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from between [us], having nailed it to the cross;

which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's.

and not holding the head, from which all the body being supplied and compacted by means of joints and tendons grows with an increase of God.

If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?

Which have an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous treatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting of the flesh.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

for which comes the wrath of God.

In which also you walked formerly when you lived in them;

and in addition to all these [put on] love, which is the bond of perfection.

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for which you have been called in one body; and be thankful.

for he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no respect of persons.

praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a door of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am bound,

And say to Archippus, Attend to your ministry which you received in the Lord, to perform it fully.

For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which were in Judea, for you also suffered the same things from your countrymen, which they did from the Jews

For which reason we wished to come to you; I Paul indeed once and again, and Satan hindered us.

For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,

a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,

For which also we pray always for you, that our God will account you worthy of the calling, and accomplish all the good pleasure of [his] goodness and the work of faith with power;

to which he called you by our gospel, to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle;

And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

The salutation by my hand, Paul's, which is [the] sign in every epistle; so I write.

nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

which some having missed turned aside to vain words,

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.

and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service,

having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;

of which I was made a herald and an apostle,?? speak the truth, I lie not,?? teacher of nations in faith and truth.

but with good works, which become women professing godliness.

For they who exercise the deaconship well, procure for themselves an honorable standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth.

Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed;

Neglect not the gift which is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the imposition of hands of the eldership.

in like manner also good works are manifest, and those which are otherwise cannot be hid.

If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety,

he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

which the blessed and only Potentate will show in its times, the King of kings and Lord of Lords,

which some having professed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.

having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that [it dwells] also in you.

For which cause I admonish you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the imposition of my hands.

of which I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the nations;

for which cause I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep my trust to that day.

Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus.

Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

in which I suffer even to chains as an evil doer; but the word of God is not bound.

persecutions, sufferings, which befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all.

and that from a child you have known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

The cloak which I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring, and the books, especially the parchments.

PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,

for the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages,

but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you,

Speak things which become sound teaching.

not by works of righteousness which we did but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

hearing of your love and faith which you have for the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,

that your participation of the faith may be made effectual by a knowledge of all the good which we have in Christ Jesus.

For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?

And to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool?

We ought therefore to attend the more to the things which we heard, lest at any time we should glide away [from them].

how shall we escape who have neglected so great a salvation? which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was affirmed to us by those who heard,

For he did not subject to angels the world to come, of which we speak.

For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,