For if I [or anyone else should] rebuild [through word or by practice] what I once tore down [the belief that observing the Law is essential for salvation], I prove myself to be a transgressor.

To take an illustration, Brothers, from daily life--No one sets aside even an agreement between two men, when once it has been confirmed, nor does he add conditions to it.

Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

To ransom those who were subject to Law, so that we might take our position as sons.

Do take my line, brothers, I beg of you ??just as I once took yours. I have no complaint against you;

And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Where, then, is the happiness ye accounted yours? For I bear you witness - that, if possible, your eyes, ye would have dug out, and given unto me.

Take note! I, Paul, tell you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all.

I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt no other view [contrary to mine on the matter]; but the one who is disturbing you, whoever he is, will have to bear the penalty.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

Those who are taught must share all the blessings of life with those who teach them the Word.

For the one who sows to his flesh [his sinful capacity, his worldliness, his disgraceful impulses] will reap from the flesh ruin and destruction, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

For not even those who practice circumcision comply with [the requirements of] the law of Moses, yet they want you to be circumcised so they can take credit for this physical evidence [of your compliance with the law of Moses].

not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].

He, in fact, is our peace - who made both one, and, the enclosing middle-wall, took down,

Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.

For it says:

When He ascended on high,
He took prisoners into captivity;
He gave gifts to people.

he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach,

From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love.

if, as I take it, you have heard Him and in union with Him have been taught the truth as it is seen in Jesus,

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

lest the devil take hold of the opportunity.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

For, this, ye know, if ye take note - that no fornicator, or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Do not participate in the worthless and unproductive deeds of darkness, but instead expose them [by exemplifying personal integrity, moral courage, and godly character];

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

In every situation take the shield of faith,
and with it you will be able to extinguish
all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

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

So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.

Take your part in the same struggle that you have seen me engage in and that you hear I am still keeping up.

Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

Do not take account of your own interests, but of the interests of others as well.

To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

For I have no one but him to send--no one of kindred spirit who would take the same genuine interest in your welfare.

I hope therefore to send him to you as soon as I find what turn my affairs shall take:

For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another.

So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:

For we are the true circumcision, who by the Spirit of God worship Him, who take pride in Christ Jesus only, and do not rely on outward privileges,

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.

And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.

Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart].

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

But you were kind enough to take your share in my trouble.

And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;

It is he whom we proclaim as we admonish and wisely teach everyone, so that we may present everyone mature in the Messiah.

As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Do not, then, allow any one to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.

Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

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?

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

Which things are all for decay in the using up; - according to the commandments and teachings of men?

Let the [spoken] word of Christ have its home within you [dwelling in your heart and mind—permeating every aspect of your being] as you teach [spiritual things] and admonish and train one another with all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

church which uses to meet in his house. when this epistle has been read among you, take care that it be read likewise in the church of the Laodiceans, and

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.

Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

For indeed, when we were with you, we foretold you that we are about to suffer tribulation; as indeed took place, and you know it.

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably,

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

For we tell you, as the Lord has told us, that we the living, who survive till the Lord comes, are by no means to take precedence of those who have fallen asleep.

You, however, Brothers, are not in darkness, that the daylight should take you by surprise as if you were thieves.

So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

they that are sober take their rest in the night, whilst they that are sots, are drunk in the night:

But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in the Lord, and admonish you,

Take care that none of you ever pays back wrong for wrong, but always follow the kindest course with one another and with every one.

So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;

and to reward with rest you who are afflicted, along with us. This will take place at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful angels,

He will come in flames of fire to take vengeance on those who have no knowledge of God, and do not obey the Good News as to Jesus, our Lord.

Do not let anybody at all deceive you about this, because that cannot take place until the great revolt occurs and the representative of lawlessness is uncovered, the one who is doomed to destruction,

The one who opposeth and exalteth himself on high against every one called God, or an object of worship; so that he, within the sanctuary of God, shall take his seat, showeth himself forth, that he is, God: -

in order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe the truth [about their sin, and the need for salvation through Christ], but instead took pleasure in unrighteousness.

And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

Now if anyone [in the church] does not obey what we say in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he will be ashamed and repent.

Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.

As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith ??20 including Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have made over to Satan. That will teach them to stop their blasphemous ongoings!

and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

Let a woman quietly take the place of a learner and be under authority.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.