Ephesians -1 Timothy Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to all the saints who are also believers in Christ Jesus:"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to all the saints who are also believers in Christ Jesus:" ² Grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blesses us with every spiritual blessing among the celestials, in Christ, ⁴ according as He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight, ⁵ in love designating us beforehand for the place of a son for Him through Christ Jesus; in accord with the delight of His will, ⁶ for the laud of the glory of His grace, which graces us in the Beloved:" ⁷ in Whom we are having the deliverance through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses in accord with the riches of His grace, ⁸ which He lavishes on us; in all wisdom and prudence ⁹ making known to us the secret of His will (in accord with His delight, which He purposed in Him)" ¹⁰ to have an administration of the complement of the eras, to head up all in the Christ - both that in the heavens and that on the earth" ¹¹ in Him in Whom our lot was cast also, being designated beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will, ¹² that we should be for the laud of His glory, who are pre-expectant in the Christ." ¹³ In Whom you also - on hearing the word of truth, the evangel of your salvation - in Whom on believing also, you are sealed with the holy spirit of promise" ¹⁴ (which is an earnest of the enjoyment of our allotment, to the deliverance of that which has been procured) for the laud of His glory!" ¹⁵ Therefore, I also, on hearing of this faith of yours in the Lord Jesus, and that for all the saints, ¹⁶ do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention in my prayers" ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may be giving you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the realization of Him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, for you to perceive what is the expectation of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of the enjoyment of His allotment among the saints, ¹⁹ and what the transcendent greatness of His power for us who are believing, in accord with the operation of the might of His strength, ²⁰ which is operative in the Christ, rousing Him from among the dead and seating Him at His right hand among the celestials, ²¹ up over every sovereignty and authority and power and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this eon, but also in that which is impending:" ²² and subjects all under His feet, and gives Him, as Head over all, to the ecclesia" ²³ which is His body, the complement of the One completing the all in all." ² ¹ And you, being dead to your offenses and sins, ² in which once you walked, in accord with the eon of this world, in accord with the chief of the jurisdiction of the air, the spirit now operating in the sons of stubbornness " ³ (among whom we also all behaved ourselves once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the comprehension, and were, in our nature, children of indignation, even as the rest), ⁴ yet God, being rich in mercy, because of His vast love with which He loves us" ⁵ (we also being dead to the offenses and the lusts), vivifies us together in Christ (in grace are you saved!)" ⁶ and rouses us together and seats us together among the celestials, in Christ Jesus, ⁷ that, in the oncoming eons, He should be displaying the transcendent riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus." ⁸ For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present, ⁹ not of works, lest anyone should be boasting." ¹⁰ For His achievement are we, being created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God makes ready beforehand, that we should be walking in them." ¹¹ Wherefore, remember that once you, the nations in flesh - who are termed 'Uncircumcision' by those termed 'Circumcision,' in flesh, made by hands -" ¹² that you were, in that era, apart from Christ, being alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and guests of the promise covenants, having no expectation, and without God in the world." ¹³ Yet now, in Christ Jesus, you, who once are far off, are become near by the blood of Christ." ¹⁴ For He is our Peace, Who makes both one, and razes the central wall of the barrier" ¹⁵ (the enmity in His flesh), nullifying the law of precepts in decrees, that He should be creating the two, in Himself, into one new humanity, making peace;" ¹⁶ and should be reconciling both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in it." ¹⁷ And, coming, He brings the evangel of peace to you, those afar, and peace to those near, ¹⁸ for through Him we both have had access, in one spirit, to the Father." ¹⁹ Consequently, then, no longer are you guests and sojourners, but are fellow-citizens of the saints and belong to God's family, ²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the capstone of the corner being Christ Jesus Himself, ²¹ in Whom the entire building, being connected together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord:" ²² in Whom you, also, are being built together for God's dwelling place, in spirit." ³ ¹ On this behalf I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you, the nations" ² since you surely hear of the administration of the grace of God that is given to me for you, ³ for by revelation the secret is made known to me (according as I write before, in brief, ⁴ by which you who are reading are able to apprehend my understanding in the secret of the Christ, ⁵ which, in other generations, is not made known to the sons of humanity as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets): in spirit" ⁶ the nations are to be joint enjoyers of an allotment, and a joint body, and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the evangel" ⁷ of which I became the dispenser, in accord with the gratuity of the grace of God, which is granted to me in accord with His powerful operation." ⁸ To me, less than the least of all saints, was granted this grace: to bring the evangel of the untraceable riches of Christ to the nations, ⁹ and to enlighten all as to what is the administration of the secret, which has been concealed from the eons in God, Who creates all, ¹⁰ that now may be made known to the sovereignties and the authorities among the celestials, through the ecclesia, the multifarious wisdom of God, ¹¹ in accord with the purpose of the eons, which He makes in Christ Jesus, our Lord;" ¹² in Whom we have boldness and access with confidence, through His faith." ¹³ Wherefore I am requesting you not to be despondent at those of my afflictions for your sake which are your glory. ¹⁴ On this behalf am I bowing my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ after Whom every kindred in the heavens and on earth is being named, ¹⁶ that He may be giving you, in accord with the riches of His glory, to be made staunch with power, through His spirit, in the man within, ¹⁷ Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, having been rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ should be strong to grasp, together with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height" ¹⁹ to know the love of Christ as well which transcends knowledge - that you may be completed for the entire complement of God. ²⁰ Now to Him Who is able to do superexcessively above all that we are requesting or apprehending, according to the power that is operating in us, ²¹ to Him be the glory in the ecclesia and in Christ Jesus for all the generations of the eon of the eons! Amen! ⁴ ¹ I am entreating you, then, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, ² with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, ³ endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit with the tie of peace: ⁴ one body and one spirit, according as you were called also with one expectation of your calling;" ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, Who is over all and through all and in all." ⁷ Now to each one of us was given grace in accord with the measure of the gratuity of Christ. ⁸ Wherefore He is saying, Ascending on high, He captures captivity And gives gifts to mankind." ⁹ Now the 'He ascended,' what is it except that He first descended also into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He Who descends is the Same Who ascends also, up over all who are of the heavens, that He should be completing all." ¹¹ And the same One gives these, indeed, as apostles, yet these as prophets, yet these as evangelists, yet these as pastors and teachers, ¹² toward the adjusting of the saints for the work of dispensing, for the upbuilding of the body of Christ, ¹³ unto the end that we should all attain to the unity of the faith and of the realization of the son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the complement of the Christ, ¹⁴ that we may by no means still be minors, surging hither and thither and being carried about by every wind of teaching, by human caprice, by craftiness with a view to the systematizing of the deception." ¹⁵ Now, being true, in love we should be making all grow into Him, Who is the Head - Christ" ¹⁶ out of Whom the entire body, being articulated together and united through every assimilation of the supply, in accord with the operation in measure of each one's part, is making for the growth of the body, for the upbuilding of itself in love." ¹⁷ This, then, I am saying and attesting in the Lord: By no means are you still to be walking according as those of the nations also are walking, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ their comprehension being darkened, being estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their hearts, ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, in greed give themselves up with wantonness to all uncleanness as a vocation." ²⁰ Now you did not thus learn Christ, ²¹ since, surely, Him you hear, and by Him were taught (according as the truth is in Jesus), ²² to put off from you, as regards your former behavior, the old humanity which is corrupted in accord with its seductive desires, ²³ yet to be rejuvenated in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new humanity which, in accord with God, is being created in righteousness and benignity of the truth." ²⁵ Wherefore, putting off the false, let each be speaking the truth with his associate, for we are members of one another." ²⁶ Are you indignant, and not sinning? Do not let the sun be sinking on your vexation, ²⁷ nor yet be giving place to the Adversary. ²⁸ Let him who steals by no means still be stealing: yet rather let him be toiling, working with his hands at what is good, that he may have to share with one who has need." ²⁹ Let no tainted word at all be issuing out of your mouth, but if any is good toward needful edification, that it may be giving grace to those hearing." ³⁰ And do not be causing sorrow to the holy spirit of God by which you are sealed for the day of deliverance. ³¹ Let all bitterness and fury and anger and clamor and calumny be taken away from you with all malice, ³² yet become kind to one another, tenderly compassionate, dealing graciously among yourselves, according as God also, in Christ, deals graciously with you." ⁵ ¹ Become, then, imitators of God, as beloved children, ² and be walking in love, according as Christ also loves you, and gives Himself up for us, an approach present and a sacrifice to God, for a fragrant odor." ³ Now, all prostitution and uncleanness or greed - let it not even be named among you, according as is becoming in saints -" ⁴ and vileness and stupid speaking or insinuendo, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving." ⁵ For this you perceive, knowing that no paramour at all or unclean or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any enjoyment of the allotment in the kingdom of Christ and of God." ⁶ Let no one be seducing you with empty words, for because of these things the indignation of God is coming on the sons of stubbornness." ⁷ Do not, then, become joint partakers with them, ⁸ for you were once darkness, yet now you are light in the Lord." ⁹ As children of light be walking (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), ¹⁰ testing what is well pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ And be not joint participants in the unfruitful acts of darkness, yet rather be exposing them also, ¹² for it is a shame even to speak of the hidden things occurring, done by them." ¹³ Now all that which is being exposed, by the light is made manifest, for everything which is making manifest is light." ¹⁴ Wherefore He is saying, 'Rouse! O drowsy one, and rise from among the dead, and Christ shall dawn upon you!'" ¹⁵ Be observing accurately, then, brethren, how you are walking, not as unwise, but as wise, ¹⁶ reclaiming the era, for the days are wicked." ¹⁷ Therefore do not become imprudent, but understand what the will of the Lord is." ¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is profligacy, but be filled full with spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and playing music in your hearts to the Lord, ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, ²¹ to our God and Father, being subject to one another in the fear of Christ." ²² Let the wives be subject to their own husbands, as to the Lord, ²³ for the husband is head of the wife even as Christ is Head of the ecclesia, and He is the Saviour of the body." ²⁴ Nevertheless, as the ecclesia is subject to Christ, thus are the wives also to their husbands in everything." ²⁵ Husbands, be loving your wives according as Christ also loves the ecclesia, and gives Himself up for its sake, ²⁶ that He should be hallowing it, cleansing it in the bath of the water (with His declaration), ²⁷ that He should be presenting to Himself a glorious ecclesia, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it may be holy and flawless." ²⁸ Thus, the husbands also ought to be loving their own wives as their own bodies. He who is loving his own wife is loving himself." ²⁹ For no one at any time hates his own flesh, but is nurturing and cherishing it, according as Christ also the ecclesia, ³⁰ for we are members of His body. ³¹ For this "a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh." ³² This secret is great: yet I am saying this as to Christ and as to the ecclesia. ³³ Moreover, you also individually, each be loving his own wife thus, as himself, yet that the wife may be fearing the husband." ⁶ ¹ Children, be obeying your parents, in the Lord, for this is just." ² Honor your father and mother' (which is the first precept with a promise), ³ that it may be becoming well with you, and you should be a long time on the earth." ⁴ And fathers, do not be vexing your children, but be nurturing them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord." ⁵ Slaves, be obeying your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the singleness of your heart, as to Christ, ⁶ not with eye-slavery, as man-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, ⁷ with good humor slaving as to the Lord and not to men, ⁸ being aware that, whatsoever good each one should be doing, for this he will be requited by the Lord, whether slave or free." ⁹ And, masters, be doing the same toward them, being lax in threatening, being aware that their Master as well as yours is in the heavens, and there is no partiality with Him. " ¹⁰ For the rest, brethren mine, be invigorated in the Lord and in the might of His strength." ¹¹ Put on the panoply of God, to enable you to stand up to the stratagems of the Adversary, ¹² for it is not ours to wrestle with blood and flesh, but with the sovereignties, with the authorities, with the world-mights of this darkness, with the spiritual forces of wickedness among the celestials." ¹³ Therefore take up the panoply of God that you may be enabled to withstand in the wicked day, and having effected all, to stand." ¹⁴ Stand, then, girded about your loins with truth, with the cuirass of righteousness put on." ¹⁵ and your feet sandaled with the readiness of the evangel of peace; ¹⁶ with all taking up the large shield of faith, by which you will be able to extinguish all the fiery arrows of the wicked one." ¹⁷ And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is a declaration of God." ¹⁸ During every prayer and petition be praying on every occasion (in spirit being vigilant also for it with all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints, ¹⁹ and for me), that to me expression may be granted, in the opening of my mouth with boldness, to make known the secret of the evangel, ²⁰ for which I am conducting an embassy in a chain, that in it I should be speaking boldly, as I must speak." ²¹ Now that you also may be acquainted with my affairs, and what is engaging me, all will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, ²² whom I send to you for this same thing, that you may know our concerns, and he should be consoling your hearts." ²³ Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." ²⁴ Grace be with all who are loving our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption! Amen!

Philippians

¹ ¹ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, together with the supervisors and servants:" ² Grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." ³ I am thanking my God at every remembrance of you, ⁴ always, in every petition of mine for you all, making the petition with joy, ⁵ for your contribution to the evangel from the first day until now, ⁶ having this same confidence, that He Who undertakes a good work among you, will be performing it until the day of Jesus Christ:" ⁷ according as it is just for me to be disposed in this way over you all, because you, having me in heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the evangel, you all are joint participants with me of grace, ⁸ for God is my Witness how I am longing for you all in the compassions of Christ Jesus. ⁹ And this I am praying, that your love may be superabounding still more and more in realization and all sensibility, ¹⁰ for you to be testing what things are of consequence, that you may be sincere and no stumbling block for the day of Christ, ¹¹ filled with the fruit of righteousness that is through Jesus Christ for the glory and laud of God. ¹² Now I am intending you to know, brethren, that my affairs have rather come to be for the progress of the evangel, ¹³ so that my bonds in Christ become apparent in the whole pretorium and to all the rest, ¹⁴ and the majority of the brethren, having confidence in the Lord as to my bonds, are more exceedingly daring to speak the word of God fearlessly." ¹⁵ Some, indeed, are even heralding Christ because of envy and strife, yet some because of delight also;" ¹⁶ these, indeed, of love, having perceived that I am located for the defense of the evangel, ¹⁷ yet those are announcing Christ out of faction, not purely, surmising to rouse affliction in my bonds." ¹⁸ What then? - Morever, seeing that, by every method, whether in pretense or truth, Christ is being announced, I am rejoicing in this also, and will be rejoicing nevertheless." ¹⁹ For I am aware that, for me, this will be eventuating in salvation through your petition and the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ, ²⁰ in accord with my premonition and expectation, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death." ²¹ For to me to be living is Christ, and to be dying, gain." ²² Now if it is to be living in flesh, this to me means fruit from work, and what I shall be preferring I am not making known." ²³ (Yet I am being pressed out of the two, having a yearning for the solution and to be together with Christ, for it, rather, is much better.)" ²⁴ Yet to be staying in the flesh is more necessary because of you. ²⁵ And, having this confidence, I am aware that I shall be remaining and shall be abiding with you all for your progress and joy of faith, ²⁶ that your glorying may be superabounding in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again. ²⁷ Only be citizens walking worthily of the evangel of Christ, that, whether coming and making your acquaintance, or being absent, I should be hearing of your concerns, that you are standing firm in one spirit, one soul, competing together in the faith of the evangel, " ²⁸ and not being startled by those who are opposing in anything, which is to them a proof of destruction, yet of your salvation, and this from God, ²⁹ for to you it is graciously granted, for Christ's sake, not only to be believing on Him, but to be suffering for His sake also, ³⁰ having the same struggle such as you are perceiving in me, and now are hearing to be in me." ² ¹ If, then, there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any compassion and pity, ² fill my joy full, that you may be mutually disposed, having mutual love, joined in soul, being disposed to one thing" ³ nothing according with faction, nor yet according with vainglory - but with humility, deeming one another superior to one's self, ⁴ not each noting that which is his own, but each that of others also." ⁵ For let this disposition be in you, which is in Christ Jesus also, ⁶ Who, being inherently in the form of God, deems it not pillaging to be equal with God, ⁷ nevertheless empties Himself, taking the form of a slave, coming to be in the likeness of humanity, ⁸ and, being found in fashion as a human, He humbles Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." ⁹ Wherefore, also, God highly exalts Him, and graces Him with the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee should be bowing, celestial and terrestrial and subterranean, ¹¹ and every tongue should be acclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, for the glory of God, the Father." ¹² So that, my beloved, according as you always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, with fear and trembling, be carrying your own salvation into effect, ¹³ for it is God Who is operating in you to will as well as to work for the sake of His delight. ¹⁴ All be doing without murmurings and reasonings, ¹⁵ that you may become blameless and artless, children of God, flawless, in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse among whom you are appearing as luminaries in the world, ¹⁶ having on the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run for naught, neither that I toil for naught." ¹⁷ But even if I am a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I am rejoicing myself and rejoicing together with you all." ¹⁸ Now, to be mutual, you also be rejoicing, and be rejoicing together with me." ¹⁹ Now I am expecting, in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you quickly, that I also may be of good cheer when I know of your concerns." ²⁰ For I have no one equally sensitive, who will be so genuinely solicitous of your concerns, ²¹ for all are seeking that which is their own, not that which is Christ Jesus'." ²² Now you know his testedness, that, as a child with a father, he slaves with me for the evangel." ²³ This one, indeed, then, I am expecting to send - as ever I may be perceiving my course from the things about me - forthwith." ²⁴ Yet I have confidence in the Lord that I myself shall also be coming quickly. ²⁵ Now I deem it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, yet your apostle and minister for my need, ²⁶ since, in fact, he was longing for you all and depressed, because you hear that he is infirm." ²⁷ For he is infirm, also, very nigh death, but God is merciful to him, yet not to him only, but to me also, lest I should be having sorrow on sorrow." ²⁸ The more diligently, then, I send him, that seeing him again, you may be rejoicing and I may be more sorrow-free." ²⁹ Receive him, then in the Lord with all joy, and have such in honor, ³⁰ seeing that because of the work of the Lord he draws near unto death, risking his soul that he should fill up your want of ministration toward me." ³ ¹ For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To be writing the same to you is not, indeed irksome for me, yet it is your security." ² Beware of curs, beware of evil workers. Beware of the maimcision, ³ for we are the circumcision who are offering divine service in the spirit of God, and are glorying in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in flesh." ⁴ And am I having confidence in flesh, also? If any other one is presuming to have confidence in flesh, I rather:" ⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, in relation to law, a Pharisee, ⁶ in relation to zeal, persecuting the ecclesia, in relation to the righteousness which is in law, becoming blameless." ⁷ But things which were gain to me, these I have deemed a forfeit because of Christ." ⁸ But, to be sure, I am also deeming all to be a forfeit because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, because of Whom I forfeited all, and am deeming it to be refuse, that I should be gaining Christ, ⁹ and may be found in Him, not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God for faith:" ¹⁰ to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, conforming to His death, ¹¹ if somehow I should be attaining to the resurrection that is out from among the dead. ¹² Not that I already obtained, or am already perfected. Yet I am pursuing, if I may be grasping also that for which I was grasped also by Christ Jesus." ¹³ Brethren, not as yet am I reckoning myself to have grasped, yet one thing - forgetting, indeed, those things which are behind, yet stretching out to those in front - " ¹⁴ toward the goal am I pursuing for the prize of God's calling above in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Whoever, then, are mature, may be disposed to this, and if in anything you are differently disposed, this also shall God reveal to you." ¹⁶ Moreover, in what we outstrip others, there is to be a mutual disposition to be observing the elements by the same rule." ¹⁷ Become imitators together of me, brethren, and be noting those who are walking thus, according as you have us for a model, ¹⁸ for many are walking, of whom I often told you, yet now am lamenting also as I tell it, who are enemies of the cross of Christ, ¹⁹ whose consummation is destruction, whose god is their bowels, and whose glory is in their shame, who to the terrestial are disposed." ²⁰ For our realm is inherent in the heavens, out of which we are awaiting a Saviour also, the Lord, Jesus Christ, ²¹ Who will transfigure the body of our humilation, to conform it to the body of His glory, in accord with the operation which enables Him even to subject all to Himself." ⁴ ¹ So that, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and wreath, be standing firm thus in the Lord, my beloved." ² I am entreating Euodia and I am entreating Syntyche, to be mutually disposed in the Lord." ³ Yes, I am asking you also, genuine yokefellow, be aiding them, these women who compete together with me in the evangel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the scroll of life." ⁴ Be rejoicing in the Lord always! Again, I will declare, be rejoicing!" ⁵ Let your lenience be known to all men: the Lord is near. ⁶ Do not worry about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, ⁷ and the peace of God, that is superior to every frame of mind, shall be garrisoning your hearts and your apprehensions in Christ Jesus." ⁸ For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is grave, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is agreeable, whatever is renowned - if there is any virtue, and if any applause, be taking these into account." ⁹ What you learned also, and accepted and hear and perceived in me, these be putting into practice, and the God of peace will be with you." ¹⁰ Now I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that at length, for once your disposition toward me blossomed, to which you were disposed also, yet you lacked occasion." ¹¹ Not that I am hinting at a want, for I learned to be content in that in which I am." ¹² I am aware what it is to be humbled as well as aware what it is to be superabounding. In everything and among all am I initiated, to be satisified as well as to be hungering, to be superabounding as well as to be in want." ¹³ For all am I strong in Him Who is invigorating me - Christ! ¹⁴ Moreover, you do ideally in your joint contribution in my affliction." ¹⁵ Now you Philippians also are aware that, in the beginning of the evangel, when I came out from Macedonia, not one ecclesia participates with me in the matter of giving and getting, except you only, ¹⁶ for in Thessalonica also, you send, once and twice, to my need." ¹⁷ Not that I am seeking for a gift, but I am seeking for fruit that is increasing for your account." ¹⁸ Now I am collecting all, and am superabounding. I have been filled full, receiving from Epaphroditus the things from you, an odor fragrant, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God." ¹⁹ Now my God shall be filling your every need in accord with His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ Now to our God and Father be glory for the eons of the eons! Amen! ²¹ Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. Greeting you are the brethren with me. ²² Greeting you are all the saints, yet especially those of Caesar's house." ²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit! Amen!

Colossians

¹ ¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, through the will of God, and brother Timothy, ² to the saints and believing brethren in Christ in Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." ³ We are thanking the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying concerning you, ⁴ on hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints, ⁵ because of the expectation reserved for you in the heavens, which you hear before in the word of truth of the evangel, ⁶ which, being present with you, according as in the entire world also, is bearing fruit and growing, according as it is among you also, from the day on which you hear and realized the grace of God in truth, ⁷ according as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow slave, who is a faithful dispenser of Christ for us, ⁸ who makes evident also to us your love in spirit. ⁹ Therefore we also, from the day on which we hear, do not cease praying for you and requesting that you may be filled full with the realization of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰ you to walk worthily of the Lord for all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the realization of God;" ¹¹ being endued with all power, in accord with the might of His glory, for all endurance and patience with joy;" ¹² at the same time giving thanks to the Father, Who makes you competent for a part of the allotment of the saints, in light, ¹³ Who rescues us out of the jurisdiction of Darkness, and transports us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, ¹⁴ in Whom we are having deliverance, the pardon of sins, ¹⁵ Who is the Image of the invisible God, Firstborn of every creature, ¹⁶ for in Him is all created, that in the heavens and that on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or sovereignties, or authorities, all is created through Him and for Him, ¹⁷ and He is before all, and all has its cohesion in Him." ¹⁸ And He is the Head of the body, the ecclesia, Who is Sovereign, Firstborn from among the dead, that in all He may be becoming first, ¹⁹ for in Him the entire complement delights to dwell, ²⁰ and through Him to reconcile all to Him (making peace through the blood of His cross), through Him, whether those on the earth or those in the heavens." ²¹ And you, being once estranged and enemies in comprehension, by wicked acts, yet now He reconciles" ²² by His body of flesh, through His death, to present you holy and flawless and unimpeachable in His sight, ²³ since surely you are persisting in the faith, grounded and settled and are not being removed from the expectation of the evangel which you hear which is being heralded in the entire creation which is under heaven of which I, Paul, became the dispenser." ²⁴ I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for you, and am filling up in my flesh, in His stead, the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ, for His body, which is the ecclesia" ²⁵ of which I became a dispenser, in accord with the administration of God, which is granted to me for you, to complete the word of God -" ²⁶ the secret which has been concealed from the eons and from the generations, yet now was made manifest to His saints, ²⁷ to whom God wills to make known what are the glorious riches of this secret among the nations, which is: Christ among you, the expectation of glory" ²⁸ Whom we are announcing, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we should be presenting every man mature in Chist Jesus;" ²⁹ for which I am toiling also, struggling in accord with His operation, which is operating in me with power." ² ¹ For I want you to perceive what the struggle amounts to which I am having for your sakes and for those in Laodicea, and whoever have not seen my face in flesh, ² that their hearts may be consoled, being united in love, and to all the riches of the assurance of understanding, unto a realization of the secret of the God and Father, of Christ, ³ in Whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are concealed. ⁴ Now I am saying this, that no one may be beguiling you with persuasive words." ⁵ For even if, in flesh, I am absent, nevertheless, in spirit, I am with you, rejoicing and observing your order and the stability of your faith in Christ." ⁶ As, then, you accepted Christ Jesus, the Lord, be walking in Him, ⁷ having been rooted and being built up in Him, and being confirmed in the faith according as you were taught, superabounding in it with thanksgiving." ⁸ Beware that no one shall be despoiling you through philosophy and empty seduction, in accord with human tradition, in accord with the elements of the world, and not in accord with Christ, ⁹ for in Him the entire complement of the Deity is dwelling bodily. ¹⁰ And you are complete in Him, Who is the Head of every sovereignty and authority, ¹¹ in Whom you were circumcised also with a circumcision not made by hands, in the stripping off of the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ." ¹² Being entombed together with Him in baptism, in Whom you were roused together also through faith in the operation of God, ¹³ Who rouses Him from among the dead, you also being dead to the offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He vivifies us together jointly with Him, dealing graciously with all our offenses, ¹⁴ erasing the handwriting of the decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and has taken it away out of the midst, nailing it to the cross, ¹⁵ stripping off the sovereignties and authorities, with boldness He makes a show of them, triumphing over them in it." ¹⁶ Let no one, then, be judging you in food or in drink or in the particulars of a festival, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, ¹⁷ which are a shadow of those things which are impending - yet the body is the Christ's. ¹⁸ Let no one be arbitrating against you, who wants, in humility and the ritual of the messengers, to parade what he has seen, feignedly, puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and not holding the Head, out of Whom the entire body, being supplied and united through the assimilation and ligaments, is growing in the growth of God." ²⁰ If, then, you died together with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, are you subject to decrees:" ²¹ You should not be touching, nor yet tasting, nor yet coming into contact, ²² (which things are all for corruption from use), in accord with the directions and teachings of men? ²³ which are (having, indeed, an expression of wisdom in a willful ritual and humility and asceticism) not of any value toward the surfeiting of the flesh." ³ ¹ If, then, you were roused together with Christ, be seeking that which is above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God." ² Be disposed to that which is above, not to that on the earth, ³ for you died, and your life is hid together with Christ in God." ⁴ Whenever Christ, our Life, should be manifested, then you also shall be manifested together with Him in glory." ⁵ Deaden, then, your members that are on the earth: prostitution, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry, ⁶ because of which the indignation of God is coming on the sons of stubborness ⁷ among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these things." ⁸ Yet now you also be putting away all these: anger, fury, malice, calumny, obscenity out of your mouth." ⁹ Do no lie to one another, stripping off the old humanity together with its practices, ¹⁰ and putting on the young, which is being renewed into recognition, to accord with the Image of the One Who creates it, ¹¹ wherein there is no Greek and Jew, Circumcision and Uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman, but all and in all is Christ." ¹² Put on, then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, pitiful compassions, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, ¹³ bearing with one another and dealing graciously among yourselves, if anyone should be having a complaint against any. According as the Lord also deals graciously with you, thus also you." ¹⁴ Now over all these put on love, which is the tie of maturity." ¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ be arbitrating in your hearts, for which you were called also in one body; and become thankful." ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ be making its home in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves; in psalms, in hymns, in spiritual songs, singing, with grace in your hearts to God." ¹⁷ And everything, whatsoever you may be doing, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God, the Father, through Him." ¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord." ¹⁹ Husbands, love your own wives and be not bitter toward them." ²⁰ Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord." ²¹ Fathers, do not vex your children, lest they may be disheartened." ²² Slaves, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-slavery, as manpleasers, but with singleness of heart, fearing the Lord." ²³ All, whatsoever you may be doing, work from the soul, as to the Lord and not to men, " ²⁴ Being aware that from the Lord you will be getting the compensation of the enjoyment of an allotment: for the Lord Christ are you slaving. ²⁵ For he who is injuring shall be requited for that which he injures, and there is no partiality." ⁴ ¹ Masters, tender that which is just and equitable to your slaves, being aware that you also have a Master in the heavens." ² In prayer be persevering, watching in it with thanksgiving, ³ praying at the same time concerning us also, that God should be opening for us a door of the word, to speak the secret of Christ, because of which I am bound also, ⁴ that I should be making it manifest, as I must speak." ⁵ In wisdom be walking toward those outside, reclaiming the era, ⁶ your word being always with grace, seasoned with salt, perceiving how you must answer each one." ⁷ All my affairs shall be made known to you by Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow slave in the Lord, ⁸ whom I send to you for this same thing, that you may know that which concerns you and he should be consoling your hearts, ⁹ together with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you all things here." ¹⁰ Greeting you is Aristarchus, my fellow captive, and Mark, cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you obtained directions: if he should be coming to you, receive him), ¹¹ and Jesus, termed Justus, who are of the Circumcision. These are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who became a solace to me." ¹² Greeting you is Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, always struggling for you in prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God." ¹³ For I am testifying of him that he has much misery over you and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis. ¹⁴ Greeting you is Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas." ¹⁵ Greet the brethren in Laodicea, and Nympha and the ecclesia at her house." ¹⁶ And whenever the epistle should be read to you, cause that it should be read in the Laodicean ecclesia also, and that you also may be reading that out of Laodicea." ¹⁷ And say to Archippus: "Look to the service which you accepted in the Lord, that you may be fulfilling it." ¹⁸ The salutation is by my hand - Paul's. Remember my bonds! Grace be with you! Amen!

1 Thessalonians

¹ ¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the ecclesia of the Thessalonians, in God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." ² We are thanking God always concerning you all, making mention of you in our prayers, " ³ unintermittingly remembering your work of faith and toil of love and endurance of expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in front of our God and Father, ⁴ having perceived, brethren beloved by God, your choice, ⁵ for the evangel of our God did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in holy spirit and much assurance, according as you are aware. Such we became among you, because of you." ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in much affliction with joy of holy spirit, ⁷ so that you become models to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For from you has been sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has come out, so that we have no need to be speaking of anything, ⁹ for they are reporting concerning us, what kind of an entrance we have had to you, and how you turn back to God from idols, to be slaving for the living and true God, ¹⁰ and to be waiting for His Son out of the heavens, Whom He rouses from among the dead, Jesus, our Rescuer out of the coming indignation." ² ¹ For you yourselves are aware, brethren, that our entrance to you has not come to be for naught, ² but, though suffering before and being outraged in Philippi, according as you are aware, we are bold in our God to speak the evangel of God to you with a vast struggle." ³ For our entreaty is not out of deception, nor yet out of uncleanness, nor yet with guile" ⁴ but, according as we have been tested by God to be entrusted with the evangel, thus are we speaking, not as pleasing men, but God, Who is testing our hearts." ⁵ For neither did we at any time become flattering in expression, according as you are aware; neither with a pretense for greed, God is witness;" ⁶ neither seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, when we could be a burden as Christ's apostles." ⁷ But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse should be cherishing her own children." ⁸ Thus being ardently attached to you, we are delighting to share with you not only the evangel of God, but our own souls also, because you came to be beloved by us." ⁹ For you remember, brethren, our toil and labor: working night and day so as not to be burdensome to any of you, we herald to you the evangel of God." ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God, how benignly and justly and blamelessly we became to you who are believing, ¹¹ even as you are aware how we were to each one of you, as a father to his own children, consoling and comforting you and attesting unto you" ¹² to be walking worthily of God, Who calls you into His own kingdom and glory." ¹³ And therefore we also are thanking God unintermittingly that, in accepting the word heard from us, from God you receive, not the word of men, but, according as it truly is, the word of God, which is operating also in you who are believing." ¹⁴ For you became imitators, brethren, of the ecclesias of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you suffered the same, even you by your own fellowtribesmen, according as they also by the Jews, ¹⁵ who kill the Lord Jesus as well as the prophets, and banish us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men, ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. Yet the indignation outstrips to them to a consummation." ¹⁷ Now we, brethren, being bereaved of you for the period of an hour, in face, not in heart, endeavor the more exceedingly to see your face, with much yearning, ¹⁸ because we want to come to you, indeed, I, Paul, once - even twice - and Satan hinders us." ¹⁹ For who is our expectation, or joy, or wreath of glorying? Or is it not even you, in front of our Lord Jesus, in His presence? ²⁰ For you are our glory and joy. ³ ¹ Wherefore, when we could by no means longer refrain, it seems well for us to be left in Athens alone, ² and we send Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the evangel of Christ, to establish and to console you for the sake of your faith." ³ No one is to be swayed by these afflictions, for you yourselves are aware that we are located for this." ⁴ For even when we were with you, we predicted to you that "we are about to be afflicted,according as it came to be also, and you are aware." ⁵ Therefore, when I also could by no means longer refrain, I send to know of your faith, lest somehow the trier tries you and our toil may be coming to be for naught." ⁶ Yet at present, because of Timothy's coming to us from you, and bringing us the evangel of your faith and your love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, longing to see us even as we also you -" ⁷ therefore we were consoled, brethren, over you in all our necessity and affliction, through your faith, ⁸ for now we are living if ever you are standing firm in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you for all the joy with which we are rejoicing because of you in front of our God, ¹⁰ night and day superexcessively beseeching to see your face and to adjust the deficiencies of your faith? ¹¹ Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, be directing our way to you! " ¹² Now may the Lord cause you to increase and superabound in love for one another and for all, even as we also for you, ¹³ to establish your hearts unblamable in holiness in front of our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus with all His saints." ⁴ ¹ For the rest, then, brethren, we are asking you and entreating in the Lord Jesus, that, according as you accepted from us how you must be walking and pleasing God (according as you are walking also), that you may be superabounding yet more, ² for you are aware what charges we give to you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God: your holiness. You are to be abstaining from all prostitution; ⁴ each of you is to be aware of his own vessel, to be acquiring it in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in lustful passion even as the nations also who are not acquainted with God. ⁶ No one is to be circumventing and overreaching his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the Avenger of all these, according as we said to you before also, and certify, ⁷ for God calls us, not for uncleanness, but in holiness." ⁸ Surely, in consequence, then, he who is repudiating is not repudiating man, but God, Who is also giving His holy spirit to you." ⁹ Now, concerning brotherly fondness, we have no need to be writing to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to be loving one another, ¹⁰ for you are doing it also to all the brethren who are in the whole of Macedonia. Now we are entreating you, brethren, to be superabounding yet more, ¹¹ and that you be ambitious to be quiet, and to be engaged in your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, according as we charge you, ¹² that you may be walking respectably toward those outside and you may have need of nothing. ¹³ Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are reposing, lest you may sorrow according as the rest, also, who have no expectation." ¹⁴ For, if we are believing that Jesus died and rose, thus also, those who are put to repose, will God, through Jesus, lead forth together with Him." ¹⁵ For this we are saying to you by the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who are surviving to the presence of the Lord, should by no means outstrip those who are put to repose, ¹⁶ for the Lord Himself will be descending from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the Chief Messenger, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall be rising first, ¹⁷ Thereupon we, the living who are surviving, shall at the same time be snatched away together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And thus shall we always be together with the Lord." ¹⁸ So that, console one another with these words." ⁵ ¹ Now concerning the times and the eras, brethren, you have no need to be written to, ² for you yourselves are accurately aware that the day of the Lord is as a thief in the night - thus is it coming! ³ Now whenever they may be saying "Peace and security,then extermination is standing by them unawares, even as a pang over the pregnant, and they may by no means escape." ⁴ Now you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may be overtaking you as a thief, ⁵ for you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness. ⁶ Consequently, then, we may not be drowsing, even as the rest, but we may be watching and be sober." ⁷ For those who are drowsing are drowsing at night, and those who are drunk are drunk at night." ⁸ Yet we, being of the day, may be sober, putting on the cuirass of faith and love, and the helmet, the expectation of salvation, ⁹ for God did not appoint us to indignation, but to the procuring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ Who died for our sakes, that, whether we may be watching or drowsing, we should be living at the same time together with Him." ¹¹ Wherefore, console one another and edify one the other, according as you are doing also." ¹² Now we are asking you, brethren, to perceive those who are toiling among you and presiding over you in the Lord and admonishing you, ¹³ and to deem them exceedingly distinguished in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves." ¹⁴ Now we are entreating you, brethren; admonish the disorderly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the infirm, be patient toward all." ¹⁵ See that no one may be rendering evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue that which is good for one another as well as for all." ¹⁶ Be rejoicing always. ¹⁷ Be praying unintermittingly. ¹⁸ In everything be giving thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. " ¹⁹ Quench not the spirit. ²⁰ Scorn not prophecies. ²¹ Yet be testing all, retaining the ideal." ²² From everything wicked to the perception, abstain." ²³ Now may the God of peace Himself be hallowing you wholly; and may your unimpaired spirit and soul and body be kept blameless in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ! ²⁴ Faithful is He Who is calling you, Who will be doing it also." ²⁵ Brethren, pray concerning us also." ²⁶ Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss. ²⁷ I am adjuring you by the Lord, that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren." ²⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you! Amen!

2 Thessalonians

¹ ¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the ecclesia of the Thessalonians, in God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:" ² Grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." ³ We ought to be thanking God always concerning you, brethren, according as it is meet; seeing that your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all for one another is increasing, ⁴ so that we ourselves glory in you in the ecclesias of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions with which you are bearing -" ⁵ a display of the just judging of God, to deem you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering also, ⁶ if so be that it is just of God to repay affliction to those afflicting you, ⁷ and to you who are being afflicted, ease, with us, at the unveiling of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful messengers, ⁸ in flaming fire, dealing out vengeance to those who are not acquainted with God and those who are not obeying the evangel of our Lord Jesus Christ" ⁹ who shall incur the justice of eonian extermination from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of His strength" ¹⁰ whenever He may be coming to be glorified in His saints and to be marveled at in all who believe (seeing that our testimony to you was believed) in that day. ¹¹ For which we are always praying also concerning you, that our God should be counting you worthy of the calling, and should be fulfilling every delight of goodness and work of faith in power, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in Him, in accord with the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." ² ¹ Now we are asking you, brethren, for the sake of the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to Him, ² that you be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be alarmed, either through spirit, or through word, or through an epistle as through us, as that the day of the Lord is present." ³ No one should be deluding you by any method, for, should not the apostasy be coming first and the man of lawlessness be unveiled, the son of destruction, ⁴ who is opposing and lifting himself up over everyone termed a god or an object of veneration, so that he is seated in the temple of God, demonstrating that he himself is God? ⁵ Do you not remember that, still being with you, I told you these things? ⁶ And now you are aware what is detaining, for him to be unveiled in his own era." ⁷ For the secret of lawlessness is already operating. Only when the present detainer may be coming to be out of the midst, ⁸ then will be unveiled the lawless one (whom the Lord Jesus will despatch with the spirit of His mouth and will discard by the advent of His presence), ⁹ whose presence is in accord with the operation of Satan, with all power and signs and false miracles" ¹⁰ and with every seduction of injustice among those who are perishing, because they do not receive the love of the truth for their salvation." ¹¹ And therefore God will be sending them an operation of deception, for them to believe the falsehood, ¹² that all may be judged who do not believe the truth, but delight in injustice." ¹³ Now we ought to be thanking God always concerning you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, seeing that God prefers you from the beginning for salvation, in holiness of the spirit and faith in the truth, ¹⁴ into which He also calls us through our evangel, for the procuring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." ¹⁵ Consequently, then, brethren, stand firm, and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, whether through word or our epistle." ¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, our Father, Who loves us, and is giving us an eonian consolation and a good expectation in grace, ¹⁷ be consoling your hearts and establish you in every good work and word. ³ ¹ Furthermore, pray, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may race and be glorified, according as it is with you also, ² and that we should be rescued from abnormal and wicked men, for not for all is the faith." ³ Yet faithful is the Lord, Who will be establishing you and guarding you from the wicked one." ⁴ Now we have confidence in you in the Lord that what we are charging, you are doing also and will be doing." ⁵ Now may the Lord be directing your hearts into the love of God and into the endurance of Christ! ⁶ Now we are charging you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to be putting yourselves from every brother who is walking disorderly and not in accord with the tradition which they accepted from us." ⁷ For you yourselves are aware how you must be imitating us, for we are not disorderly among you, ⁸ neither did we eat bread gratuitously from anyone, but, with toil and labor, we are working night and day, so as not to be burdensome to any of you." ⁹ Not that we have not the right, but that we may be giving you ourselves as a model for you to be imitating us." ¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we gave this charge to you: that "If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat." ¹¹ For we are hearing that some among you are walking disorderly, working at nothing, but are meddling." ¹² Now such we are charging and entreating in the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they may be eating their own bread." ¹³ Now you, brethren, should not be despondent in ideal doing." ¹⁴ Now if anyone is not obeying our word through this epistle, let it be a sign to you as to this man, not to commingle with him, that he may be abashed;" ¹⁵ and do not deem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother." ¹⁶ Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace continually by every means. The Lord be with you all! ¹⁷ The salutation is by my hand - Paul's - which is a sign in every epistle: thus am I writing. ¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen!

1 Timothy

¹ ¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, according to the injunction of God, our Saviour, and the Lord Jesus Christ, our Expectation, ² to Timothy, a genuine child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God, our Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord." ³ According as I entreat you, remain with them in Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you should be charging some not to be teaching differently, ⁴ nor yet to be heeding myths and endless genealogies, which are affording exactions rather than God's administration which is in faith." ⁵ Now the consummation of the charge is love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith, ⁶ from which some, swerving, were turned aside into vain prating, ⁷ wanting to be teachers of the law, not apprehending either what they are saying, or that concerning which they are insisting." ⁸ Now we are aware that the law is ideal if ever anyone is using it lawfully, ⁹ being aware of this, that law is not laid down for the just, yet it is for the lawless and insubordinate, the irreverent and sinners, the malign and profane, thrashers of fathers and thrashers of mothers, homicides, ¹⁰ paramours, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and if any other thing is opposing sound teaching, ¹¹ in accord with the evangel of the glory of the happy God, with which I was entrusted." ¹² Grateful am I to Him Who invigorates me, Christ Jesus, our Lord, for He deems me faithful, assigning me a service, ¹³ I, who formerly was a calumniator and a persecutor and an outrager: but I was shown mercy, seeing that I do it being ignorant, in unbelief." ¹⁴ Yet the grace of our Lord overwhelms, with faith and love in Christ Jesus." ¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all welcome, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, foremost of whom am I." ¹⁶ But therefore was I shown mercy, that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ should be displaying all His patience, for a pattern of those who are about to be believing on Him for life eonian." ¹⁷ Now to the King of the eons, the incorruptible, invisible, only, and wise God, be honor and glory for the eons of the eons! Amen!" ¹⁸ This charge I am committing to you, child Timothy, according to the preceding prophecies over you, that in them you may be warring the ideal warfare, ¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which some, thrusting away, have made shipwreck as to the faith;" ²⁰ of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I give up to Satan, that they may be trained not to calumniate." ² ¹ I am entreating, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, pleadings, thanksgiving be made for all mankind, ² for kings and all those being in a superior station, that we may be leading a mild and quiet life in all devoutness and gravity, ³ for this is ideal and welcome in the sight of our Saviour, God, ⁴ Who wills that all mankind be saved and come into a realization of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and one Mediator of God and mankind, a Man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ Who is giving Himself a correspondent Ransom for all (the testimony in its own eras), ⁷ for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the nations in knowledge and truth." ⁸ I am intending, then, that men pray in every place, lifting up benign hands, apart from anger and reasoning." ⁹ Similarly, women also are to be adorning themselves in raiment, decorously, with modesty and sanity, not with braids and gold, or pearls or costly vesture, ¹⁰ but (what is becoming to women professing a reverence for God) with good works. ¹¹ Let a woman be learning in quietness with all subjection. ¹² Now I am not permitting a woman to be teaching nor yet to be domineering over a man,, but to be in quietness" ¹³ (for Adam was first molded, thereafter Eve, ¹⁴ and Adam was not seduced, yet the woman, being deluded, has come to be in the transgression)." ¹⁵ Yet she shall be saved through the child bearing, if ever they should be remaining in faith and love and holiness with sanity." ³ ¹ Faithful is the saying: "If anyone is craving the supervision, he is desiring an ideal work." ² The supervisor, then, must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, sober, sane, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach, ³ no toper, not quarrelsome, but lenient, pacific, not fond of money, ⁴ controlling his own household ideally, having his children in subjection with all gravity -" ⁵ now if anyone is not aware how to control his own household, how will he care for the ecclesia of God? -" ⁶ no novice, lest, being conceited, he should be falling into the judgment of the Adversary." ⁷ Yet he must have an ideal testimony also from those outside, that he should not be falling into the reproach and trap of the Adversary." ⁸ Servants, similarly, are to be grave, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not avaricious, ⁹ having the secret of the faith in a clear conscience. ¹⁰ Now let these also first be tested: thereafter let them be serving, being unimpeachable." ¹¹ The wives, similarly, are to be grave, not adversaries, sober, faithful in all things." ¹² Let servants be the husbands of one wife, controlling children and their own households ideally, ¹³ for those who serve ideally are procuring for themselves an ideal rank and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ These things I am writing to you, though expecting to come to you more quickly, ¹⁵ yet, if I should be tardy, that you may be perceiving how one must behave in God's house, which is the ecclesia of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth." ¹⁶ And avowedly great is the secret of devoutness, which was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by messengers, heralded among the nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory." ⁴ ¹ Now the spirit is saying explicitly, that in subsequent eras some will be withdrawing from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons, ² in the hypocrisy of false expressions, their own conscience having been cauterized;" ³ forbidding to marry, abstaining from foods, which God creates to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who believe and realize the truth, ⁴ seeing that every creature of God is ideal and nothing is to be cast away, being taken with thanksgiving, ⁵ for it is hallowed through the word of God and pleading. ⁶ By suggesting these things to the brethren, you should be an ideal servant of Christ Jesus, fostering with the words of faith and of the ideal teaching which you have fully followed." ⁷ Now profane and old womanish myths refuse, yet exercise yourself in devoutness, ⁸ for bodily exercise is beneficial for a few things, yet devoutness is beneficial for all, having promise for the life which now is, and that which is impending." ⁹ Faithful is the saying and worthy of all welcome ¹⁰ (for for this are we toiling and being reproached), that we rely on the living God, Who is the Saviour of all mankind, ¹¹ especially of believers. These things be charging and teaching. ¹² Let no one be despising your youth, but become a model for the believers, in word, in behavior, in love, in faith, in purity." ¹³ Till I come, give heed to reading, to entreaty, to teaching." ¹⁴ Neglect not the gracious gift which is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the imposition of the hands of the eldership." ¹⁵ On these things meditate. In these be, that your progress may be apparent to all." ¹⁶ Attend to yourself and to the teaching. Be persisting in them, for in doing this you will save yourself as well as those hearing you." ⁵ ¹ An elderly man you should not be upbraiding, but be entreating him as a father, the younger men as brethren, ² the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, in all purity." ³ Widows be honoring, who are really widows." ⁴ Now if any widow has children or descendants, let them learn to be devoted to their own household first and reciprocate by paying their progenitors, for this is welcome in God's sight." ⁵ Now one really a widow, and alone, relies on God and is remaining in petitions and prayers night and day." ⁶ Yet she who is a prodigal, though living, is dead." ⁷ These things also, charge, that they may be irreprehensible." ⁸ Now if anyone is not providing for his own, and especially his family, he has disowned the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever." ⁹ Let no widow be listed of less than sixty years, having been the wife of one man, ¹⁰ attested by ideal acts: if she nourishes children, if she is hospitable, if she washes the saints' feet, if she relieves the afflicted, if she follows up with every good work." ¹¹ Yet the younger widows refuse, for whenever they should be restive against Christ, they are wanting to marry;" ¹² having judgment seeing that they repudiate their first faith. ¹³ Yet at the same time they are learning to be idle also, wandering about the homes. Yet not only are they idle, but gossips also, and meddlers, speaking what they must not." ¹⁴ I am intending, then, that younger widows are to be marrying, bearing children, managing the household, giving an opposer nothing as an incentive favoring reviling, ¹⁵ for already some were turned aside after Satan. ¹⁶ If any believing woman has widows with her, let her be relieving them and let not the ecclesia be burdened, that it should be relieving those who are really widows." ¹⁷ Let elders who have presided ideally be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who are toiling in word and teaching, ¹⁸ for the scripture is saying: "A threshing ox you shall not be muzzling,and "Worthy is the worker of his wages." ¹⁹ Against an elder do not assent to an accusation outside and except before two or three witnesses. ²⁰ Those who are sinning be exposing in the sight of all, that the rest also may have fear." ²¹ I am conjuring, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the chosen messengers, that you should guard these things, apart from prejudice, ²² doing nothing from bias. On no one place hands too quickly, nor yet be participating in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure." ²³ No longer drink water only, but be using a sip of wine for your stomach and your frequent infirmities." ²⁴ Some men's sins are taken for granted, preceding them into judging, yet some are following up also." ²⁵ Similarly the ideal acts also are taken for granted, and those having it otherwise can not be hid." ⁶ ¹ Whoever are slaves under the yoke, let them deem their own owners worthy of all honor, lest the name of God and the teaching may be blasphemed." ² Yet let those having believing owners not be despising them seeing that they are brethren, but rather let them slave for them, seeing that they are believing and beloved, being supported by the slave's benefaction. These things teach and entreat." ³ If anyone is teaching differently and is not approaching with sound words, even those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching in accord with devoutness, ⁴ he is conceited, versed in nothing, but morbid about questionings and controversies, out of which is coming envy, strife, calumnies, wicked suspicions, ⁵ altercations of men of a decadent mind and deprived of the truth, inferring that devoutness is capital." ⁶ Now devoutness with contentment is great capital; ⁷ for nothing do we carry into the world, and it is evident that neither can we carry anything out." ⁸ Now, having sustenance and shelter, with these we shall be sufficed." ⁹ Now, those intending to be rich are falling into a trial and a trap and the many foolish and harmful desires which are swamping men in extermination and destruction." ¹⁰ For a root of all of the evils is the fondness for money, which some, craving, were led astray from the faith and try themselves on all sides with much pain." ¹¹ Now you, O man of God, flee from these things: yet pursue righteousness, devoutness, faith, love, with endurance, suffering, and meekness." ¹² Contend the ideal contest of the faith. Get hold of eonian life, for which you were called, and you avow the ideal avowal in the sight of many witnesses." ¹³ I am charging you in the sight of God, Who is vivifying all, and of Jesus Christ, Who testifies in the ideal avowal before Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴ that you keep this precept unspotted, irreprehensible, unto the advent of our Lord, Christ Jesus, ¹⁵ which, to its own eras, the happy and only Potentate will be showing: He is King of kings and Lord of lords, ¹⁶ Who alone has immortality, making His home in light inaccessible, Whom not one of mankind perceived nor can be perceiving, to Whom be honor and might eonian! Amen!" ¹⁷ Those who are rich in the current eon be charging not to be haughty, nor yet to rely on the dubiousness of riches, but on God, Who is tendering us all things richly for our enjoyment;" ¹⁸ to be doing good acts, to be rich in ideal acts, to be liberal contributors, ¹⁹ treasuring up for themselves an ideal foundation for that which is impending, that they may get hold of life really." ²⁰ O Timothy, that which is committed to you, guard, turning aside from the profane prattlings and antipathies of falsely named "knowledge, ²¹ which some are professing. As to the faith, they swerve. Grace be with you! Amen!"