and hath blotted out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us, which was the obstacle to us, and took it from the midst, nailing it to the cross;

and not firmly attached to the head, from which the whole body, by joints and ligaments, harmoniously adjusted and closely compacted, increaseth with increase from God.

If then ye have been dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye dogmatically taught,

And in every thing that ye do, labour from the soul, as for the Lord, and not man;

knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye are servants to the Lord Christ.

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it also be read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received from the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

PAUL, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ: grace unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only into Macedonia and Achaia, but into every region also your fidelity towards God is gone out, so that we have no need to say any thing.

For they publish concerning you what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile;

not seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, though we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ.

For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.

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

But now when Timothy returned to us from you, and brought us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye retain a kind remembrance of us always, earnestly desirous to see us, as we are also to see you:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, 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 unto you and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

who shall receive punishment, even eternal perdition, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power:

that ye be not hastily agitated with apprehension, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by discourse, nor by letter, as coming from us, as though the day of the Lord was instantly approaching.

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath elected you from the beginning unto salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit, and faith in the truth:

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for there is not faith in all.

But the Lord is faithful, who will stablish you, and keep you from the wicked one.

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

to Timothy, my genuine son in faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

from which some, having swerved, have turned aside to vain babbling;

He must also have a fair character from those who are without, that he may not fall into reproach, and into the snare of the devil.

NOW the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter days some will apostatise from the faith, giving heed to spirits of delusion, and doctrines of devils;

prohibiting marriage, and enjoining abstinence from particular meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and those who acknowledge the truth.

Against a presbyter receive not an accusation, except it be from two or three witnesses.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but delirious with disputes and quarrels about words, from whence come wrath, contentions, evil speakings, wrong suspicions,

perverse wranglings of men corrupt in mind, and destitute of truth, who think to make gain of godliness; depart from such men.

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

But thou, O man of God, flee from these things; but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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 forefathers with a pure conscience, that I keep up a constant remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

Model thy teaching according to the pattern of the sound discourses, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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

Nevertheless the stable foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal, the Lord knoweth those who belong to him. And, let every man who mentions the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.

If therefore a man preserve himself pure from these things, he shall be a vessel for honour, sanctified and highly useful to the master, ready for every good work.

holding the form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from these men turn with aversion.

But wicked men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and deceived.

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and listen unto fables.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and preserve me for his celestial kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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

not attending to Jewish fables, and injunctions of men, who have turned 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 be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

but without thy consent would I do nothing; that this good deed of thine might not be as of necessity, but from thy own choice.

For to this end perhaps was he separated from thee for a season, that thou mightest receive him for ever;

"And thou from the beginning, O Lord, hast founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of you a wicked heart of infidelity, [evident] in departure from the living God:

For we who have believed, have entered into the rest, even as he said, "So, I sware in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest;" and that notwithstanding the works were done from the foundation of the world.

For he said in a certain passage concerning the seventh day to this purport, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath rested from his works, as God did from his own.

FOR, every high-priest taken from among men, is constituted on behalf of men for those services which relate to God, that he should offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

who in the days of his flesh, with strong crying and tears, having offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being heard for his reverential awe,

though he was a son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered:

WHEREFORE, desisting from initiatory discourse respecting Christ, let us advance towards perfection; not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and faith in God,

For the earth which imbibes the rain which often falls upon it, and bringeth forth herbage suitable for those by whom it is cultured, receiveth a blessing from God;

FOR this Melchisedec, king of Salem, a priest of God most high, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

For they indeed of the sons of Levi, who are admitted to priesthood, have an order to receive tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though also sprung from the loins of Abraham.

But he who derived not his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises;

but without all dispute the inferior receives benediction from the superior.

For it is evident that our Lord sprang from Judah; to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood;

And they indeed are many who were made priests, because by death they were prevented from abiding [in their office]:

For such an high-priest was suitable to us, holy, inoffensive, spotless, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

And they shall no more teach every man his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the mean man of them unto the great among them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit, offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the living God?

let us come to him with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and the body washed with pure water:

Recede not therefore from your boldness of profession, which brings a great recompence of reward.

Wherefore even from one person, and he become dead in respect to these matters, there sprang a race, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand, which is on the shore of the sea, innumerable.

And if indeed they had fixed their minds on that from whence they had gone forth, they might have had opportunity to go back to it again.

reasoning that God was able to raise him up again, even from the dead; from whence also figuratively he had received him.

Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls.

Beware that ye reject not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not, who rejected him, that upon earth spake by divine influence, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great pastor of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting testament,

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

Let no man under temptation say, I am tempted of God: for God is incapable of temptation from evils, and he tempteth no man:

Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descending from the father of illuminations, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of change.

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, To pay diligent attention to the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to preserve himself spotless from the world.

are you not thus partial among yourselves, and form your decision from bad reasonings?

Doth a fountain from the same aperture spout forth sweet water and bitter?

This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, meek, easily persuadable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and void of dissimulation.

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

Be in subjection then to God. Resist the devil, and he will fly from you.

Behold, the wages of the workmen who have mowed down your fields, which is kept back by you from them, crieth out: and the loud moans of the reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.

Brethren, if any man among you should have erred from the truth, and one convert him;

let him know, that he that converteth a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto an animating hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

To whom it was revealed, that not for themselves, but for us were their ministrations employed in the things which are now declared unto you by those who have preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; on which things the angels bending forwards eagerly desire to gaze.

knowing that ye have not been redeemed out of your vain manner of life, derived traditionally from your fathers, by the corruptible things, silver and gold,

who by him believe in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.