Wherefore also I have found many things to hinder me from coming to you;

that I may be delivered from those who do not believe in Judea; and that my service which regards Jerusalem may be kindly accepted by the saints;

Now I beseech you, brethren, keep a sharp eye over those who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and turn away from them.

Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the revelation of the mystery; which was concealed from all former ages,

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

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Wherefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will manifest the counsels of men's hearts; and then shall praise be given to each from God.

And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you.

But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away that wicked man from among yourselves.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

For I would that all men were even as myself: but every man hath his peculiar gift from God, one of this sort, and another of that.

But to the married not I command, but the Lord, That the wife be not separated from the husband:

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I offer my opinion, as having obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But I would have you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord:

Know ye not that they who are employed about the holy things, are fed from the temple? and they who serve at the altar, partake with the altar?

For though I be free from all men, I have made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man.

But if all prophesy, and any infidel or illiterate person come in, he receives conviction from all, he is judged of all:

Went the word of God from you? or came it unto you only?

But if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

There is one glory of the sun; and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differeth from star in glory.

The first man was of the earth, earthly; the second man was the Lord from heaven.

I rejoice in the arrival of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus; because what was lacking from you, they have supplied.

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

Who from so imminent a prospect of death hath delivered us, and still delivers: in whom we trust also that he will yet deliver us:

ye also labouring together for us in prayer, that from many persons thanks may be given on our behalf for the gifts bestowed on us by many.

and through you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia return unto you, and by you to be forwarded on my journey towards Judea.

And I have written unto you for this very purpose, that I might not, when I come to you, have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

DO we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory letters from you?

And we all with face unveiled, beholding the glory of the Lord [reflected] as in a mirror, according to the same image, receive a transformation from glory into glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

And if now our gospel be hid, it is hid from those who are lost:

FOR we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle should be taken down, 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 with our mansion which is from heaven;

Therefore we have always confidence, and know that whilst we are indwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

We are confident indeed, and with pleasure expect to go out from the body, and to dwell within with the Lord:

Wherefore from the present moment know we no man after the flesh: yea though we have also known Christ after the flesh, yet so henceforth know we him no more.

"Wherefore go forth from the midst of them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,

HAVING therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now I rejoice, not that ye have been made sorrowful, but that ye have sorrowed unto repentance; for ye have been made sorry in a godly manner, that ye might receive damage from us in nothing.

But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which belongs to Christ.

I plundered other churches, receiving a provision from them, in order to minister to you.

And when I was with you, and in want, I was burdensome to no man; for my want the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and on every occasion I have kept myself from being burdensome, and will keep myself.

I protest, by the truth of Christ in me, that from this boasting no man shall seal up my lips in the regions of Achaia.

But what I do, I will do also, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

For ye bear if a man enslave you, if a man eat you up, if a man receive from you, if a man is insolent, if a man smite you on the face.

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

and beside all these things from without, that accumulated burden which cometh on me daily, the care of all the churches.

For this thrice I besought the Lord, that he might depart from me.

PAUL the apostle (not [sent] from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and our Father who raised him from the dead),

grace unto you, and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ;

I marvel that ye are so quickly departed from him that called you, by the grace of Christ into another gospel

But though even we, or an angel from heaven, preach unto you another gospel, different from that which we have preached to you, let him be an anathema.

As we have before spoken, and I now repeat it again, If any man preach a gospel different from that ye have received, let him be anathema.

For do I now use persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

For I neither received it from man, nor was taught, but by immediate revelation from Jesus Christ.

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

But from those who appeared men of the greatest importance, (what sort of men soever they were it maketh no difference to me: God accepteth not a man's person;) for these important personages in conference added nothing to me;

For before certain persons came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles, but when they were come, he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

We who are Jews by descent, and not sinners sprung from Gentiles,

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or from hearing of the faith?

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, "Cursed is every one who is hanged on a tree:"

NOW I affirm, that as long as the heir is an infant, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be master of all;

Which things are allegorical; for these are the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, gendering unto bondage, which is represented by Agar.

Ye have vacated all expectations from Christ, as many of you as are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

This persuasion cometh not from him who called you.

I wish that they who trouble you were cut off from you.

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

which he displayed in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly regions,

that ye were at that time without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and atheists in the world:

destroying the enmity in his flesh, even the law of precepts, in ordinances, that he might from the two create in himself one new man, making peace,

and to make all men see what the communication of that mystery means, which was hid from the beginning in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

according to the purpose from everlasting, which he formed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

From whom the whole body nicely joined together, and firmly connected by every joint of exact proportion, according to the energy exerted in the measure of every several part, causeth the increase of the body unto the edification of itself in love.

darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice:

Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

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

knowing that whatsoever good a man doeth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a bondman, or whether he be free.

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

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

for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day even until now;

and very many of our brethren in the Lord, assuming confidence from my chains, are more abundantly bold, fearlessly to preach the word.

and not dismayed on any occasion by your adversaries; which is indeed the proof of perdition to them, but of salvation to you, and that from God.

I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.

But our conversation is in heaven as its citizens, from whence also we are expecting the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

But know also, Philippians, that at my first preaching the gospel, when I went from Macedonia, no church communicated to me in the way of giving and receiving but ye alone.

But I have now all things, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your bounty, an odour of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

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

which is come unto you, as it is also unto all the world; and beareth fruit, as also among you, from the day that ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

even as ye have learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-labourer, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you;

For this cause we also from the day we heard it have not ceased praying for you, and beseeching God that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

who hath plucked us out from the dominion of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent.

if ye abide in faith grounded and firm, and never moved aside from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached to the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul am a minister.

of which I am a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which was given me for you to fulfil the ministry of the word of God??26 the mystery which was hid from ages and from generations, but is now unveiled to his saints;

For though I am absent from you in person, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and beholding your regular order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

buried with him in baptism, in which also ye have been raised up together with him by faith, the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.