and yet what must have tried you in my physical condition, you did not scorn and despise, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

What has become of that satisfaction of yours? For I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given them to me!

Yet what does the Scripture say? "Drive the slave-girl and her son away, for the slave-girl's son shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows.

See what large letters I make, when I write to you with my own hand!

enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people,

So I ask that what I am having to suffer for your sake may not make me lose heart, for it does you honor.

so that you and all God's people may be strong enough to grasp what breadth, length, height, and depth mean,

What does "he went up" mean, except that he had first gone down to the under parts of the earth?

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means,

you must make sure what pleases the Lord.

So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

so that you may have a sense of what is vital, and may be men of transparent character and blameless life, in preparation for the Day of Christ,

Now I want to assure you, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in furthering the preaching of the good news.

But what difference does it make? All that matters is that, in one way or another, from false motives or honest ones, Christ is being made known; I am glad of that. Yes, and I expect to be glad,

for he came near dying for the Lord's work, and risked his life to make up for what was lacking in the service you have done me.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead,

Only we must live up to what we have already attained.

Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly??n everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.

for what we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have for all God's people,

and for the hope of what is stored up for you in heaven. You first heard of it long ago when the true message of the gospel

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.

For I want you to know what a fight I am putting up for you and for our brothers in Laodicea, and for all who do not know me personally,

What I mean is, let nobody mislead you by specious arguments.

So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.

Here, what matters is not "Greek" and "Jew," the circumcised and the uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeborn, but Christ is everything and in us all.

For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God,

For what hope or happiness shall we have or what prize to be proud of in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes, except you?

and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect,

as I pray night and day with intense earnestness that I may see your faces and supply what is lacking in your faith?

For you remember what instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.

When people say, "What peace and security!" then suddenly destruction will be upon them, like birth-pains upon a woman about to give birth to a child, and there will be no escape.

Hold them in the highest esteem and affection for what they do. Live at peace with one another.

Thank God whatever happens. For this is what God through Christ Jesus wants you to do.

but test them all, retaining what is good

So now you know what it is that is holding him back from making his appearance before the appointed time arrives.

This is why God sends upon them a misleading influence, to make them believe what is false,

We have faith in you through the Lord that you are doing and will keep doing what we direct you to do.

For you know yourselves what you must do to follow my example, for I was not idle when I was with you;

If anyone refuses to obey what we have said in this letter, mark the man and do not have anything to do with him, to make him feel ashamed.

who gave himself as a ransom for all men. This is what was testified to at the proper times,

This is what you must urge and teach.

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

Timothy, guard what has been intrusted to you. Keep away from the worldly, empty phrases and contradictions of what they falsely call knowledge,

This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.

As your example in wholesome instruction, keep before you what you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.

Think over what I say. For the Lord will help you to understand it perfectly.

unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good,

But you must stand by what you have learned and been convinced of, and remember from whom you learned it,

Alexander, the metal-worker, did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he did.

I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you??6 men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience.

They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,

This is what you must teach and urge and insist upon with full authority. No one is to look down on you.

for what I hear of the love and faith you have in the Lord Jesus and all his people,

So although as a Christian I feel quite free to order you to do what ought to be done,

I prefer to appeal to you in the name of love, simply as what I am??aul, no less an envoy of Christ Jesus, though now a prisoner for him

For to what angel did God ever say, "You are my Son! I have today become your Father"? Or again, "I will become his Father, and he shall become my Son"?

But to what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for you"?

For someone has somewhere solemnly declared, "What is man? for you think of him; Or any man? for you care for him.

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

For because he has himself been tempted in what he has suffered he is able to help others who are in trial.

Now the faithfulness of Moses in all the house of God was that of a servant, in faithfully repeating what he was told to say;

For we have had good news preached to us, just as they did, but the message they heard did them no good because they did not agree through faith with what they heard.

And although he was a son, he learned to obey, through what he suffered,

And so after waiting patiently, he received what God had promised him.

Now if anything final had been really accomplished through the Levitical priesthood, for even the giving of the Law was based upon it, what further need would there have been of appointing a different priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek, instead of choosing one of the priesthood of Aaron?

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a high priest as this, and he has taken his seat in heaven at the right hand of God's Majesty,

Faith means the assurance of what we hope for; it is our conviction about things that we cannot see.

All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

Yet though they all gained God's approval by their faith, they none of them received what he had promised,

For you know how, when he afterward wished to claim the blessing, he was refused it, although he begged for it with tears, for he had no opportunity to repent of what he had done.

Now the words "But once more" indicate the final removal of all that is shaken, as only created, leaving only what is unshaken to be permanent.

You must not be avaricious; you must be content with what you have, for God himself has said, "I will never let go of you or desert you!"

So that we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?"

fit you by every blessing to do his will, and through Jesus Christ carry out in us what will please him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

No one should think when he is tempted that his temptation comes from God, for God is incapable of being tempted by what is evil, and he does not tempt anyone.

and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looked like.

But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does.

My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him?

and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?

For we all make many mistakes. Anyone who never makes a mistake in what he says has a character that is fully developed and is able to control his whole body as well.

So the tongue is a little organ and yet very boastful. What a great forest a spark will set on fire!

What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

So when a man knows what is right and fails to do it, he is guilty of sin.

Why, we call those who showed such endurance happy! You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen what the Lord brought out of it, for the Lord is very kind and merciful.

trying to learn for what possible time the spirit of Christ within them in predicting the sufferings destined for Christ intended them and the glories that were to follow them.

And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here,

For God approves a man if from a sense of duty he endures suffering unjustly inflicted??20 for what credit is there in your enduring being beaten for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing what is right, you have God's approval.

And who is there that can hurt you if you are eager to do what is right?

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?

If it is hard for the upright man to be saved, what will become of the godless and sinful?