and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

And all things are from God, who reconciled us to himself by Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

"Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not anything unclean;" "and I will receive you,

Having then these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorrowful, but that your sorrow produced repentance. For the sorrow which ye felt had respect to God, that ye might in nothing receive injury from me.

but I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from singleheartedness toward Christ.

and when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; (for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied my wants;) and in every thing I kept myself and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.

But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who wish for an occasion, in order that in the matter of which they boast they may be found even as we.

for ye bear with it, if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one smites you on the face.

by journeyings often; by perils of rivers, by perils of robbers, by perils from my countrymen, by perils from the heathen, by perils in the city, by perils in the wilderness, by perils in the sea, by perils among false brethren;

For if I should desire to boast, I should not be a fool; for I should say the truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth from me.

In respect to this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me;

Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through 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 the present evil world, according to the will of God our Father;

I marvel that ye are so soon turning from him that called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel;

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel to you contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed!

for I did not receive it from man nor was I taught it by any man, but it was revealed to me by Jesus Christ.

But when it pleased him who set me apart from my very birth, and called me through his grace,

But from those who were reputed to be somewhatwhatever they were, it matters not to me, (God accepteth no mans person,) for to me those in reputation communicated nothing new.

For before certain persons came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from the works of the Law that ye received the Spirit, or by the preaching of faith?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, "Cursed is every one that is hanged on a beam of wood,"

for if the inheritance cometh from the Law, it ceaseth to be the consequence of the promise; but to Abraham God gave it by promise.

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth in no respect from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

Which things are written allegorically; for these women are two covenants; the one from Mount Sinai, who beareth children into bondage, which is Hagar;

Ye are entirely separated from Christ, who seek to obtain righteousness through the Law; ye have fallen away from grace.

This persuasion came not from him that called you.

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

which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead; and seated him at his own right hand in the heavenly regions,

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

from whom every family in heaven and on earth receiveth its name,

that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and borne about by every wind of teaching, through the dishonest tricks of men, and their cunning in the wily arts of error;

from whom the whole body, well put together and compacted by means of every supplying joint, is, according to the working of each part in its proportion, building itself up in love.

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evilspeaking, be put away from you, with all malice;

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

not with eyeservice as menpleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

knowing that whatever good each one shall have done, that shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bondman or free.

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 the Lord Jesus Christ.

on account of your fellowship in the cause of the gospel from the first day until now;

Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will.

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

If then there is any exhortation in Christ, if any encouragement from love, if any partaking of the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith;

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

And ye yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in an account of giving and receiving, but ye only;

But I have all, and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus what was sent from you, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colossae: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father.

which is come to you, as it is in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, as it doth also in you, from the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth;

even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf;

On this account we also, from the day we heard of it, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

who rescued us from the empire of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son;

And he is the head of the body, the church; since he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be in all things preeminent;

if ye indeed continue in the faith grounded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye heard, which hath been preached in the whole creation under heaven; of which I Paul became a minister.

having been buried with him in your baptism; in which also ye were raised to life with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead;

and not holding fast the Head, from which the whole body, supported and compacted by means of the joints and ligaments, groweth with an increase wrought by God.

Whatever ye do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men,

knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the recompense of the inheritance; serve Christ as your Lord.

And when the letter hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the letter from Laodicea.

And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy from the Holy Spirit;

For from you the word of the Lord hath sounded forth not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God hath become known; so that we need not say anything [about you].

For they themselves are reporting concerning us what kind of reception we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

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

For our teaching is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in guile;

nor from men sought we glory, either from you, or from others; though we might have used authority as apostles of Christ.

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also is powerfully working in you that believe.

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

hindering us from speaking to the gentiles that they may be saved,to fill up their sins always! But the wrath is come upon them to the end.

But when Timothy just now came to us from you, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you;

Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more;

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first;

abstain from every form of evil.

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

and to you the distressed rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be manifested from heaven, with the angels of his might,

who will be punished with everlasting destruction proceeding from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,

that ye be not easily shaken in mind, nor troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as if the day of the Lord were close at hand.

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth;

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for it is not all that have faith.

But faithful is the Lord, who will establish you, and guard you from evil.

Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

to Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

from which some swerving turned aside to vain babbling,

moreover he must also have a good report from them that are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

Now the Spirit saith expressly, that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from food which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those who believe and know the truth.

and withal they learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

he is puffed up with pride, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, from which cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

For the love of money is a root of all evils; which some coveting have strayed away from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many pangs.

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, as without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,

Hold the pattern of sound words, which thou heardest from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus;

Thou knowest this, that all those in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day: and what services he rendered me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

and the things which thou didst hear from me before many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, such as will be able to teach others also.

Bear in mind Jesus Christ of the seed of David, as raised from the dead, according to my gospel;

Nevertheless Gods firm foundation standeth, having this seal, "The Lord knoweth them that are his;" and, "Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity."

If then any one shall purge himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, hallowed, useful for the householder, prepared for every good work.