My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life:

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our manner of life in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love towards him.

To the one we are the savor of death to death; and to the other the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not because we would be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up in life.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

And that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.

By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,

As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Wherefore show ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Why? because I love you not? God knoweth.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God towards you.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it;

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I may live to God.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live by them.

Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means: for if there had been a law given which could give life, verily righteousness would have been by the law.

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

For, brethren, ye have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall from the Spirit reap life everlasting.

According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Wherefore I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints,

Among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God.

With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love;

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself: and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

But the other from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.

According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know not.

Only let your manner of life be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

If there is therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh to death, not regarding his life, to supply the want of your service towards me.

And I entreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, help those women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

Who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

That their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then will ye also appear with him in glory.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another, and towards all men, even as we do towards you:

But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some have coveted, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But thou, O man of God, flee from these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

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

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

It is a faithful saying: For if we are dead with him, we shall also live with him:

But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience,

And all indeed that will live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me at that day: and not to me only, but to all them also that love his appearing.

In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began;

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,