but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

and when I was with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no one; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied beforehand my need; and in every thing I kept myself without being burdensome to you, and will keep myself so.

But what I do I also will do, that I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we are.

for you endure it if any one reduces you to servitude, if any one devours you, if any one takes from you, if any one exalts himself against you, if any one beats you in the face.

often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers,

and I was let down in a rope-basket, by a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.

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 our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel,

But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed.

for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

But from those of distinction, whatever they were it makes no difference to me,??od is partial to no man,??or those of distinction added nothing to me,

For before some came from James he eat with the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself; fearing those of the circumcision;

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree,

But I say, that as long as the heir is a child, he differs not from a servant, though he is lord of all,

These things are allegorical, for those [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude, which is Hagar;

You have departed from Christ, whoever of you are justified by the law, you have fallen from the grace.

You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

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

which he performed in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly [worlds],

that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world;

and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.

Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

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

knowing that whatever good each one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a freeman.

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

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

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

in Sawyer]those from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel,

terrified in nothing by the adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God;

that I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;

But I have all things and abound, I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

to the saints in Colosse and the faithful brothers in Christ. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father.

which is present with you as also in all the world, and is fruitful and increases, as also with you, from the day that you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

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

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

who delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

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

if indeed you continue founded and established in the faith, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached in all the creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

the mystery concealed from ages and from generations, but now it has been manifested to his saints,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you have also been raised together through the effectual faith of God who raised him from the dead;

having blotted out what was written by the hand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from between [us], having nailed it to the cross;

and not holding the head, from which all the body being supplied and compacted by means of joints and tendons grows with an increase of God.

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?

knowing that you will receive from the Lord the recompense of the inheritance. You serve Christ the Lord;

And when this letter has been read with you, cause that it be also read by the church of the Laodiceans; and do you also read that from Laodicea.

For from you the word of the Lord was proclaimed not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith with respect to God went into every place, so that we had no need to say any thing;

for they declare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve the living and true God,

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

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that receiving the word of God heard from us, you received not a word of men, but, as it is in truth, a word of God, who also works in you that believe.

For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which were in Judea, for you also suffered the same things from your countrymen, which they did from the Jews

But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we also you,

FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

abstain from every form of evil.

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

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

who shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,

that you be not soon shaken in mind, nor terrified, neither by a spirit, nor by a discourse, nor by an epistle as from us, as though the day of the Lord was at hand.

And now you know what hinders him from being revealed in his time.

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation by purification of spirit, and belief of the truth,

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

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

And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,

And he must also have a good name from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons,

who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth.

and at the same time also, being idle, they learn to go from house to house, and not only are they idle, they are also tattlers and mischief makers, saying what they ought not.

I charge you before God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing from partiality.

he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science,

which some having professed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.

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

I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure conscience, that I mention you incessantly in my prayers night and day,

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace given us in Christ Jesus from eternity,

Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus.

and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also.

Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead, a descendant of David, according to my gospel,

who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

But the foundation of God stands firm, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from wickedness.

if therefore any one purifies himself from these [errors], he shall be a vessel for honor, sanctified, of good use to the master, prepared for every good work.

But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

and that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil, who are made captives by him to his will.

persecutions, sufferings, which befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all.

But do you continue in what you learned and understood, knowing from whom you learned,

and that from a child you have known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to myths.

but the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the word should be fully declared by me, and all the nations should hear, and I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever; amen.

to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.