that He might present to Himself the assembly, glorious, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and without blemish.

For this cause, will a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

"that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth."

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil;

On this account, take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day; and, having fully accomplished all, to stand.

withal having taken up the shield of faith, with which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

and on my behalf that utterance may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the Gospel,

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

Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptness.

so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;

and that the greater part of the brethren, having become confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall in nothing be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life, or through death.

But if it be to live in flesh, this is to me a fruit of labor; and what I shall choose I know not;

but I am constrained by the two; having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for it is far better;

and in nothing terrified by the adversaries; which, indeed, to them is a token of destruction, but of your salvation, and this from God;

but emptied Himself, taking a slave's form, coming to be in the likeness of men;

that, in the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, and on earth, and under the earth,

But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus shortly to send Timothy to you, that I also may be cheerful, when having known the things concerning you.

I sent him, therefore, the more urgently, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in flesh:

Nay, more, I even account all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I suffered the loss of all things, and account them refuse, that I may gain Christ.

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith in Christ??he righteousness which is of God by faith:

if by any means I may attain to the out-resurrection from the dead.

Not that I already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

nevertheless, whereunto we advanced, by the same rule let us walk.

Let your forbearance be known to all men: the Lord is near!

Be anxious for nothing; but, in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are righteous, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

The things also, which ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these practice; and the God of peace will be with you.

Not that I am speaking in respect of want; for I learned in whatsoever circumstances I am, to be content.

I both know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound: in everything, and in all things, I have learned both to be well fed, and to be hungry, both to abound, and to be in want.

Now to our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, cease not praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

And He is the Head of the body, the assembly; Who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that in all things He may be preeminent;

Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;

Let no one rob you of your prize, wishing to do it in humility and in a worshipping of angels, speculating about the things which he has seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

When Christ, our Life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be disheartened.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

And, when the letter may be read among you, cause that it be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.

The salutation, with my hand, of Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election;

but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

nor seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others; though able to be in authority, as apostles of Christ.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

forbidding us to speak to the gentiles, that they might be saved, for the filling up of their sins always; and the wrath came upon them to the uttermost.

Wherefore, when no longer able to endure it, we were well pleased to be left behind at Athens alone,

that no one should be shaken in these tribulations; for ye yourselves know that for this we are appointed.

For this reason, I also, no longer enduring it, sent, that I might know your faith, lest by some means the tempter tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

But concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that one write to you; for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those falling asleep, that ye sorrow not even as the rest who have no hope;

after that we, the living who are left over, will be caught up together with them in clouds, into the air, to meet the Lord; and so shall we always be with the Lord.

But, concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written to you;

So, then, let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

But let us, being of the day, be sober, having put on a breast-plate of faith and love; and, as a helmet, a hope of salvation;

and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be long-suffering toward all.

And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I adjure you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brethren.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

a proof of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye may be accounted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer;

who, indeed, shall pay a penalty, eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,

when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at in all who believed (because our testimony to you was believed), in that day.

that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of the Lord has set in.

Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed??he son of perdition;

And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth, and will bring to nought by the manifestation of His presence;

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

that they all may be judged, who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord; because God, from the beginning, chose you to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of truth;

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, as also it is with you:

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

nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.

And, if anyone obey not our word through this letter, note this one, not to associate with him, that he may be ashamed.

Now the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always, in every way. The Lord be with you all.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

wishing to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

Now to the King of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered up to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;

Who wisheth all men to be saved, and to come into a full knowledge of truth.

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

But she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.

It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,

It is needful that deacons, in like manner, be grave, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy of base gain;

But let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach.

It is needful that their wives, in like manner, be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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

And, confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifested in flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.

Because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, when it is received with thanksgiving;

Suggesting these things to the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have strictly followed;

Attend to these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may be manifest to all.

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

Let a widow be enrolled, when she has become not less than sixty years old, having been a wife of one man,