as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have me in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

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

What is it then? at any rate, in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, yea, also I will rejoice;

for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

but if to live in flesh is my lot, this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.

and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in faith;

For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;

As many therefore as are perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

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

And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that he might know your state, and that he might encourage your hearts:

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For yourselves know that we are set for this;

For this reason I also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to nothing.

for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,

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

He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

(For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you;

And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,

But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, the first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal.

This charge, my child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,

for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,

for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Thou knowest this, that all who are in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me.

For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Yet the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows those that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of the Lord withdraw from iniquity.

But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there;

For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:

This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

for perhaps for this reason he has been separated from thee for a time, that thou mightest possess him fully for ever;

but if he have wronged thee anything or owe anything to thee, put this to my account.

For to which of the angels said he ever, Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son?

For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things we have heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

and in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.

and, on account of this infirmity, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

and this will we do if God permit.

For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him;

Now consider how great this personage was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.

who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all in having offered up himself.

For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.

the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing;

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.

And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

This is the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;

For in the power of this the elders have obtained testimony.

But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.

Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for they watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.

But I much more beseech you to do this, that I may the more quickly be restored to you.

If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.

instead of your saying, If the Lord should so will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

but the word of the Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings is preached to you.

To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of the corner,

For this is acceptable, if one, for conscience sake towards God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly.

For what glory is it, if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear it? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear it, this is acceptable with God.

For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.

but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name.

By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written to you briefly; exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which ye stand.

But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,

But I account it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance,

For he received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight;

and this voice we heard uttered from heaven, being with him on the holy mountain.

knowing this first, that the scope of no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,

This, a second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in both which I stir up, in the way of putting you in remembrance, your pure mind,

knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,

For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,

But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

And this is the promise which he has promised us, life eternal.

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

He that practises sin is of the devil; for from the beginning the devil sins. To this end the Son of God has been manifested, that he might undo the works of the devil.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.

For this is the message which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment.

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that power of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.

They are of the world; for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.

We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.

And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.

For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.

This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which he has witnessed concerning his Son.

And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.