Thematic Bible: Their people are bound, to


Thematic Bible




Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience in all things desiring to conduct ourselves well.

and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel,








Moreover, he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock? Do I say this only according to men? or does not the law say the same also? For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God take care for oxen? read more.
Or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope, and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap material things from you?


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

But now when Timothy came from you unto us and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you.


as also ye have known in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And I wrote this same unto you, lest when I came, I should have grief from those of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.






that ye submit yourselves unto such and to each one that helps and labours.


And my affliction which was in my flesh ye did not despise, nor reject but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.



And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women who laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also and with my other fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.


He that hears you hears me, and he that despises you despises me, and he that despises me despises him that sent me.




therefore, whatever they bid you to observe, observe it and do it, but do not act according to their works, for they say and do not do it.