According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.

And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know not

For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)

And terrified in nothing by them being hostile to you: which to them is truly an indication of destruction, and to you of salvation, and this from God.

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus;

Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God

For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.

That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;

And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy quickly to you, that I also be courageous, having known the things concerning you.

And I thought necessary Epaphroditus, my brother, and cooperator, and fellow soldier, and your sent, and workman of my necessity, be sent to you.

Therefore I sent him the more earnestly, that, seeing him, ye might again rejoice, and I be more free from sorrow.

For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with.

But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,

And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.

But, at what we before arrived, to walk by the same rule, to think the same.

Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.

Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself.

Let your fitness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God.

And what things ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.

And I know how to be humble, and I know how to abound in every thing: and in all I am instructed also to be full and to hunger, and to abound and to be in want.

Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:

For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him:

And he is before all, and all things have been established by him.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens.

And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled

In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him:

That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead.

Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ.

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.

If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.

When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory.

And let the peace of God act as umpire in your hearts, to which also, ye were called in one body: and be grateful.

And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.

Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.

And he acting with injustice shall be taken care of for what he did unjustly: and there is no distinction of persons.

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

The greeting of Paul by my hand. Remember my bonds. Grace with you. Amen.

And to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom be raised from the dead, Jesus, saving us from coming wrath.

But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:

Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ.

For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews:

Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.

Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone:

For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.

For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to be pressed; as also it was, and ye know.

For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

For this, brethren, were we comforted in you in all our pressure, and necessity by your faith:

For ye know what orders we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;

And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept.

For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first:

Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord.

Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.

And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all.

And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I bind you by oath, for the epistle to be read to all the holy brethren.

(A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near.

Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

And now ye know the withholding for him to be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity is already energetic: only he withholding, even till he be out of the midst.

And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival:

And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved.

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.

As to the rest, pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be honoured, as also with you:

And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.

And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.

Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.

For fornicators, unchaste, man-stealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine;

Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men;

Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.

And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

And let these also first be tried; then let them perform the office of footman, being blameless.

Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses.