Watch, stand firm in the faith, play the man, be strong!

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.

Now brothers, goodbye; mend your ways, listen to what I have told you, live in harmony, keep the peace; then the God of love and peace will be with you.

never let your zeal flag; maintain the spiritual glow; serve the Lord;

mind what is above, not what is on earth,

As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?

To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.

Practise also what you have learned and received from me, what you heard me say and what you saw me do; then the God of peace will be with you.

Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.

Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.

Do not let evil get the better of you; get the better of evil by doing good.

Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.

So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.

see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.

I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes.

"Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" ??22 referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets;

Do not forget beneficence and charity, either; these are the kind of sacrifices that are acceptable to God.

Hence I mean to keep on reminding you of this, although you are aware of it and are fixed in the Truth as it is;

and abstaining from whatever kind is evil.

I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep.

to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves ??though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law ??to win over those outside the Law;

However, she is happier if she remains as she is; that is my opinion ??and I suppose I have the Spirit of God as well as other people!

For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

Whatever town or village you go into, find out a deserving inhabitant and stay with him till you leave.

Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.