in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

But our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

I have received full payment and even more; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colossae: grace to you and peace from God our Father.

as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might have the first place in everything.

if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a minister.

Of this church I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

having canceled the certificate of debt, which stood against us with its decrees. He took what was hostile away from us, nailing it to the cross.

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

knowing that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

When this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you read the letter from Laodicea.

For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we have no need to say anything.

For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

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

For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity, nor is it made with deceit;

nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last.

But since we were taken away from you, brethren, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face.

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, just as we long to see you

Finally, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Abstain from every form of evil.

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

and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,

not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.

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

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

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

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

For some men have wandered away from these things and turned aside to fruitless discussion,

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,

who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Besides, they learn to be idle, going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.

which some have professed and in so doing have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you.

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

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and the grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

Follow the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

You are aware of the fact that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Dayand you know very well all the service he rendered at Ephesus.

And the things you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David according to my gospel,

who have gone astray from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and upset the faith of some.

Nevertheless, God's firm foundation stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who names the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness."

If anyone cleanses himself from what is ignoble, he will be a vessel for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, knowing from whom you learned it,

and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

and will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion's mouth.

The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

to Titus, my true child in a common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, zealous for good deeds.

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

For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

Therefore we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Take care, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.

And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his godly fear.

Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For land which drinks the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.

And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.

But this man whose genealogy is not derived from them received a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office;

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

waiting from that time until his enemies be made a stool for his feet.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.