not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise any thing, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,

And we all, with unvailed face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit.

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house that is from heaven,

Therefore, we are always confident, especially since we know that, while living in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him.

And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

For this reason, come out from among them, and separate yourselves, says the Lord, and touch not an unclean person, and I will receive you;

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every pollution of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed in order to repentance. For you sorrowed in a way acceptable to God, that you might in nothing receive injury from us.

Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.

Let each one give, as he purposes in his heart; not with grief, nor from necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which pertains to Christ.

for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my wants; and in every thing I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will continue to keep myself.

But what I am -doing I will also continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in what they boast, they may be found even as we.

For you bear it, if one enslave you, if one devour you, if one take from you, if one exalt himself, if one smite you on the face,

From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one;

In journeying s often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches.

To boast is not suitable for me; I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord. -

PAUL, an apostle, (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,)

grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

to whom be glory from age to age. Amen.

I am astonished that you are so soon turning away from him that called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel:

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach to you any other gospel than that which we have preached, let him be ac cursed.

for neither did I receive it from man, nor was it taught me, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when God, who chose me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, was pleased

But from those who were supposed to be something; (what they were is a matter of no importance to me: God does not accept the person of man;) they, indeed, who were supposed to be something, communicated no additional truth to me;

For, before certain persons came from James, he ate- with the Gentiles: but, when they had come, he withdrew, and separated himself, because he feared those who were of the circumcision.

Christ has bought us off from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us: (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:)

But I say, that the heir, as long as he is a minor, differs in no respect from a servant, though he is owner of all;

These things are allegorized: for these women are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai that brings forth for bondage, which is Hagar.

Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.

You that are justified by law, have withdrawn from Christ: you have fallen from grace.

You were running well; who kept you back from obedience to the truth?

This readiness to be persuaded is not from him that calls you.

For he that sows for his flesh shall from the flesh, reap corruption; but he that sows for his spirit shall from the Spirit reap life eternal.

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

which he made active in the Christ when he raised him from the dead, and caused him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

For which reason, remember that you were formerly Gen tiles, by natural descent, and that you are called Uncircumcision by the Circumcision; so called, from a mark made in the flesh by hands;

that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world:

having abolished, in his flesh, the cause of enmity, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might, by himself, form the two into one new man, thus making peace;

and enlighten all men with respect to the plan of the mystery, which was concealed from the ages in God, who created all things;

from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named,

from whom the whole body, compactly fitted together, and united by every helping joint, according to the energy in the measure of each part, makes increase of the body, for the building up of itself in love.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

Wherefore, the scripture says: Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;

knowing that whatever good any one does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he is a servant or a freeman.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the wiles of the devil:

Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand them in the evil day, and having overcome them all, to stand firm.

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day till now:

These do it from love, because they know that I am set for the defense of the gospel;

those preach Christ from a contentious disposition, not sincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

If, therefore, there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort arising from love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies,

who, being in the form of God, did not think it an act of robbery to be equal with God;

but he divested himself by taking the form of a servant, and being made in the likeness of men:

if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church contributed to me so that I kept an account of giving and receiving, but you only.

But I have all, and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your gifts, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

Now to God, even our Father, be glory from age to age. Amen.

to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ that are in Colosse: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

as you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you,

For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

and he is the head of the body, the church: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be preeminent;

if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

of which I was made a minister according to the commission from God, which was given to me for you, that I might fully preach the word of God,

the mystery which was concealed from the ages and the generations, but is now made manifest to his saints,

when you were buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him by your faith in the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.

and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

If, then, you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to ordinances?

But now do you also put away all these anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth.

And whatever you do, do from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.

And when this letter has been read among you, cause that it be read in the church of the Laodiceans also; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea;

PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

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

For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for his Son from heaven, even Jesus, whom he raised from the dead, and who delivers us from the coming wrath.

For our exhortation arose not from deception, nor from uncleanness, nor was it with guile;

nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others; though we could have been burdensome as the apostles of Christ.

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for you, also, have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, that they have suffered from the Jews,

But we, brethren, having been taken from you for a short time, in person, not in heart, did, with great desire, endeavor the more earnestly to see your face.

But now, since Timothy has come to us from you, and has told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us at all times, greatly desiring to see us, as indeed we desire to see you,

for now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall arise first;

Abstain from every appearance of evil.

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

and to you that are afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of our Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

these shall suffer punishment in that day, even eternal destruction, far from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power,