Now as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he is to be lord of all:

Which things are figurative; for these persons are emblems of the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, bringing forth children unto bondage, which is Hagar: for this name Hagar,

Christ is become nothing to you, whosoever of you are seeking to be justified by the law: ye are fallen from the grace of the gospel.

Ye did run well: who hindered you from obeying the truth?

This persuasion came not from him that called you: but a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.

I wish they were even cut off from your communion, that make such disturbance amongst you.

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

which He exerted in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at his own right hand in heavenly places,

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

For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and removed the wall of partition from between us;

and make all men to see the communication of the mystery, which from the ages past hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

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

from whom the whole body being fitly joined together and compacted by the aid of every joint, according to the operation proportioned to every part, maketh an increase to the edification of itself in love.

in the vanity of their mind, darkened in their understanding, and alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, by reason of the hardness of their heart:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and fury, and clamor, and calumny, be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind one to another,

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 heart;

knowing that whatever good any one doth, he shall receive the reward of it from the Lord, whether He be a slave or 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 from the Lord Jesus Christ.

in every prayer of mine) for your attachment to the gospel, from the first day even till now;

and are in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is a demonstration of ruin to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

For to you it is granted as a favor from Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for his sake:

from whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ: who will change our vile body,

And ye Philippians know, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I was departing from Macedonia, no church communicated to me on the score of giving and receiving, but you only.

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

which is come unto you, even as in all the world, and is fruitful; as it hath been also among you, from the day in which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth.

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

who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son:

And He is the head of the body, which is the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence.

if so be ye continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved from the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached throughout the whole creation, of which I Paul am a minister.

even that mystery which was hid from former ages and generations, but is now manifested to his saints:

being buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are raised together with Him, through faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

and not adhering to the head, from which all the body, being supplied and held together as by joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

If therefore ye be dead with Christ from the elements of the world; why, as if living in the world, are ye subject to ceremonial ordinances,

knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Christ;

And when this letter has been read amongst you, cause it to be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; that ye may also read that from Laodicea.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

For the word of the Lord sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia; but also in every place your faith towards God is spread abroad, so that we have no need to say any thing of it.

For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance 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 wrath to come.

For this also we thank God continually, 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 worketh effectually in you that believe.

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God, which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus, in that ye also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews:

But we, brethren, being separated from you for a season, in person not in heart, endeavoured the more earnestly to see you again with much desire.

But now Timothy being come back to us from you, and having brought us good tidings concerning your faith and love, and that ye have always a good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we indeed do to see you;

As to what remains therefore, my brethren, we intreat and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received instructions from us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, ye would abound therein more and more.

For ye know what commandments we gave you from the Lord Jesus.

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

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with acclamation, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

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

and to you, who are in trouble, rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven,

we beseech you, brethren, that ye be not soon moved from your steadiness of mind, or troubled, neither by Spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, that the day of Christ is at hand.

And ye know what now hindereth him from being revealed in his own time.

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord; because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the 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 establish you, and preserve you from the evil one.

Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who walketh disorderly, and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

But be not you, my brethren, discouraged from well-doing. And if any obey not our order,

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

from which some having swerved are turned aside to vain discourses;

He ought also to have an honorable testimony from those that are without, least he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Now the Spirit expressly saith, that in latter times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to seducing spirits,

and enjoining abstinence from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those that believe and know the truth.

And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tatlers also and busy-bodies, talking of things unbecoming them.

Receive not an accusation against an elder, unless from two or three witnesses.

he is proud, knowing nothing, but is delirious about questions and strifes of words: from which cometh envy, contention, calumnies, wicked suspicions, perverse debates of men corrupted in mind,

and void of truth, accounting gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting after have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

which some pretending to, have erred from the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

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

Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Thou knowest that all those of Asia are turned from me, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes.

and the things which thou hast heard from me, before many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Remember Jesus Christ of the seed of David, who was raised from the dead, according to my gospel:

and their discourse will eat like a gangrene. Of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus; who have erred from the truth,

However, the foundation of God standeth firm, having this inscription, The Lord knoweth them that are his; and, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

If therefore any one purify himself from these corruptions, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified and fitted for the Master's use, being prepared for every good work.

having a form of godliness, but strangers to the power of it: from such turn away.

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learnt, and been assured of, knowing from whom thou hast learned them;

and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus: for all scripture is by inspiration from God,

and turn away their attention from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me to his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory throughout all ages. Amen.

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

not attending to Jewish fables, and the precepts of men who turn away from the truth.

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

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

For perhaps he was therefore parted from thee for a season, that thou mightest receive him for ever:

Yea, my brother, let me enjoy this satisfaction from thee in the Lord: and thus refresh my bowels in the Lord.

Take heed, my brethren, least there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God:

For we who believe shall enter into rest, as He said above, "So I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest:" though the works of creation were finished from the foundation of the world:

for it is thus said concerning the seventh day, "And God rested the seventh day from all his works."

for he that is entered into his rest, hath also himself ceased from his works, as God did from his.

And there is no creature concealed from his sight: but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him, to whom we are to give an account.

For every high-priest taken from among men, is appointed for the sake of men in things relating to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Who in the days of his flesh, offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, to Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in what He feared;

Wherefore omitting the discourse about the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us proceed to perfection: not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,

and of faith in God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, and of the resurrection from the dead, and of eternal judgement: (tho' we will do this also, if God permit:)

For as the earth, which imbibeth the rain that is frequently coming upon it, and produceth herbs fit for those by whom it is cultivated, receiveth a blessing from God:

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings,