For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

Therefore do not be partakers with them.

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh."

so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Therefore take to yourselves the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Above all, take the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

And pray for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

that you may distinguish between things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ,

And most of the brothers in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the Word without fear.

according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.

For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

so that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

then fulfill my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.

For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones under the earth;

so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,

But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.

Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ

and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,

if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern.

who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself.

I beg Euodia and Syntyche that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.

Not that I speak according to need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

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

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

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.

And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.

And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,

Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Be mindful of things above, not on things on the earth.

When Christ our Life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you also are called in one body, and be thankful.

And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as is becoming in the Lord.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they be discouraged.

Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

And when this letter is read before you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter of Laodicea.

The salutation of Paul, by my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be so with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

For what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are you not even to be in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?

Therefore when we could no longer endure, we were pleased to be left at Athens alone.

so that no one should be drawn aside by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to them.

For this cause, when I could no longer endure, I also sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you and our labor may have been in vain.

For we know what commands we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.

For we say this to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep.

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.

Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.

But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.

For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

For this is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer,

who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day.

that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.

Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,

And now you know what holds back, for him to be revealed in his own time.

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming,

and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.