Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

And as many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints that are in Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly things in Christ,

having predestinated us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

by making known to us the mystery of his will according to his good purpose which he had before established in himself,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the acknowledgment of him,

but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,

For by grace you have been saved through the faith; and this matter is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:

For we are his workman ship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.

that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world:

and that he might reconcile both, in one body, to God, through the cross, having by it put to death the cause of enmity;

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom you also are builded together, for a dwelling-place of God by his Spirit.

if, indeed, you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God, which was given to me for your benefit,

of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which was given to me, in proportion to the energy of his power:

and enlighten all men with respect to the plan of the mystery, which was concealed from the ages in God, who created all things;

to the end that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known, through the church, to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly regions,

and to know the love of the Christ that passes our knowledge, that you may be filled with aft the fullness of God.

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all.

till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature that fully develops the Christ;

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

and put on the new man, which, according to the will of God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Let him that steals, steal no more: but rather let labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that has need.

Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:

and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, with which you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Be you, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.

For you know this, that no lewd nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words: for on account of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

giving thanks to our God and Father always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

being subject one to another in the fear of God.

not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;

with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not as to men;

knowing that whatever good any one does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he is a servant or a freeman.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the wiles of the devil:

Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand them in the evil day, and having overcome them all, to stand firm.

and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

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

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

I thank my God on every remembrance of you

being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you, will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ;

For God is my witness how ardently I love you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which fruit is by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Some, indeed, preach the Christ, because of envy and a contentious disposition, and some because of good-will.

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

who, being in the form of God, did not think it an act of robbery to be equal with God;

For which reason God has highly exalted him, and, also, bestowed on him a name that is above every name;

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

for it is God, who, of his good pleasure, works in you both the will and the power to perform.

that you may be without reproach and Harmless, the children of God, without blame, in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as luminaries in the world,

And, indeed, he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness which was by law, but the righteousness which is by faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,

but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us, therefore, as many as are fully enlightened, be of this mind: and if you are of another mind with respect to any thing, God will reveal even this to you.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Be anxious about nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God:

and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, or any praise, think of these things.

Do those things which you have learned and received, and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

But I have all, and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your gifts, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

But my God will supply all your need, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now to God, even our Father, be glory from age to age. Amen.

I PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, I and Timothy my brother,

to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ that are in Colosse: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

which is present among you, as it is also in all the world, and is producing fruit, even as it has been doing also among you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, in order to please him in all things, by means of every good work bringing forth fruit, and increasing in the knowledge, of God,

who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature;

of which I was made a minister according to the commission from God, which was given to me for you, that I might fully preach the word of God,

to whom God would make known what is the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

that their hearts may be comforted, they being firmly united in love in order to gain all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may acknowledge the mystery of God, even the Father, and of Christ,

when you were buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him by your faith in the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.

and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

If, then, you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God;

for you are dead, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

on account of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience,

Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, a merciful disposition, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:

And let the peace of God, to which you are called in one body, rule in your hearts, and be thankful.

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

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but with simplicity of heart, fearing God.

praying at the same time also for us, that God may open for us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of the Christ, for which I am in bonds,

Jesus also, who is called Justus, salutes you: these are of the circumcision: and these only are my fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you; he always strives earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

be cause we know, brethren beloved of God, your election.

For from you, the word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also your faith in God has gone abroad in every place, so that we have no need to speak any thing.

For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

But having suffered before, and having been outraged, as you know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the midst of great peril.

but as God had judged us worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

For neither nattering words did we at any time use, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:

so, having a strong affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives also, because you had become dear to us.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

You are witnesses, and God also, in how holy and just and blameless a manner we conducted our selves among you that believe,

that you should walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you to his own kingdom and glory.