Ephesians -1 Timothy Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

Godbey⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having blessed us with all spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ: ⁴ as he elected us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless in his presence. ⁵ in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of sons unto himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, ⁶ unto the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved: ⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of transgressions, according to the riches of his grace, ⁸ which he has abounded unto us in all wisdom and understanding, ⁹ having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his own good pleasure, which he purposed in himself ¹⁰ in the economy of the fulness of the times, to rehead all things in Christ, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth; in him, ¹¹ in whom we were also chosen by lot, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things within us according to the counsel of his own will; ¹² that we should be unto the praise of his glory, who first exercised hope in Christ: ¹³ in whom you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom, also having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ who is the earnest of our salvation, unto the redemption of the possession, unto the praise of his glory. ¹⁵ Therefore I also, having heard of the faith among you in the Lord Jesus, and your love which is toward all the saints, ¹⁶ I do not cease giving thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers; ¹⁷ in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may grant unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the perfect knowledge of himself; ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints, ¹⁹ and what the excellent majesty of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the power of his might ²⁰ which he has wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead, and seating him on his right hand in the heavenlies, ²¹ above all government, and authority, and power, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but in the age to come: ²² and has subordinated all things beneath his feet, and given him to be head over all things to the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all things in all. ² ¹ You, who were dead in trespasses and in your sins, ² in which at one time you walked about according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience; ³ among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also: ⁴ but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ created life in us in Christ, who were dead in trespasses, by grace you have been saved, ⁶ and he has raised you up, and caused you to sit in the heavenlies, in Christ Jesus: ⁷ in order that he may show in coming ages the superabounding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast: ¹⁰ for we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them. ¹¹ Therefore remember, that when you were Gentiles in the flesh, called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, made in the flesh with hands; ¹² because you were at that time without Christ, being alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and being atheists in the world. ¹³ But now you are in Christ Jesus, who being at one time far off have been made nigh by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, the one having made both one, and having broken down the middle wall of partition, ¹⁵ having destroyed the law of commandments in ordinances, through his flesh, the enmity, in order that He might create the two in himself into one new man, making peace; ¹⁶ and that he may reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity on in. ¹⁷ And having come he preached the gospel of peace to you, who were far away, and peace to them who were nigh: ¹⁸ because through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ Then therefore you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, ²¹ in whom the entire edifice, being assimilated, increases into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom also you are built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit. ³ ¹ Therefore I Paul, the prisoner of Christ for the sake of you Gentiles, ² if indeed you have heard the economy of the grace of God which is given to me unto you; ³ that according to revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I formerly wrote to you briefly, ⁴ according to which you, reading, are able to know my understanding in the mystery of Christ; ⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets through the Spirit; ⁶ that the Gentiles are to be fellow-heirs, and the same body, and partakers of the promise of Christ Jesus through the gospel, ⁷ whose minister I became, according to the gift of the grace of God which was given unto me; according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; ⁹ and to shine forth what is the economy of the mystery which has been hidden from the ages in God who created all things; ¹⁰ in order that the manifold wisdom of God through the church, may now be made known to the governments and authorities in the heavenlies, ¹¹ according to the purpose of the ages which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through the faith of him. ¹³ Therefore I ask that you faint not in my tribulations in your behalf, which is your glory. ¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees to the Father, ¹⁵ of whom the whole family in heavens and upon earth is named, ¹⁶ in order that he may grant unto you, according to the riches of his glory, that you be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; ¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; ¹⁸ being rooted and grounded in divine love, in order that you may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to know the divine love of Christ which transcends knowledge, in order that you may be filled with all the fulness of God. ²⁰ And to him who is able to do exceedingly above all things which we ask or think, according to the power working in us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church indeed in Christ Jesus unto all the generations of the age of the ages: Amen. ⁴ ¹ Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which you are called, ² with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in divine love; ³ endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, as ye indeed are called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and above you all, and in all. ⁷ And to each one of you grace is given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. ⁸ Therefore he says, Having ascended upon high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to the people. ⁹ But what is that which ascended, except that which descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ But the one having descended and the one having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things, is the same. ¹¹ And he gave some, apostles; some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; ¹² unto the perfection of the saints, in the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ: ¹³ until we may all come into the unity of the faith, and of the perfect knowledge of the Son of God, into a perfect man, into the measure of the likeness of the fulness of Christ: ¹⁴ in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion; ¹⁵ but speaking the truth in divine love, let its grow up in him in all things, who is the head, Christ; ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, being assimilated and knitted together through every joint of the supply, according to the working in each several part, makes increase of the body in the edification of itself in divine love. ¹⁷ Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart; ¹⁹ who being past feeling have given themselves up to debauchery, unto the working of all impurity with greediness. ²⁰ But you did not so learn Christ: ²¹ if indeed ye have heard him, and been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception; ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new man, who has been created in harmony with God in the righteousness and holiness of the truth. ²⁵ Therefore, having laid aside lying, speak the truth each one with his neighbors: because we are members of one another. ²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your provocation: ²⁷ neither give place to the devil. ²⁸ Let the one stealing steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his own hands doing that which is good, that he may have to give to the one having need. ²⁹ Let no corrupt communication go forth out of your mouth, but if anything is good unto edification of need, in order that he may give grace to those who hear. ³⁰ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil. ³² But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you. ⁵ ¹ Therefore be ye imitators of God, as beloved children; ² and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor. ³ But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints; ⁴ and indecorum, or foolish talking, or indecent jesting, which is not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks: ⁵ for you are knowing this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Therefore be not partakers along with them. ⁸ For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light, ⁹ (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), ¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord; ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather indeed convict them. ¹² For it is disgraceful even to speak of those things which are done by them in concealment: ¹³ but all things being convicted by the light are made manifest; for everything made manifest is light. ¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, thou sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee. ¹⁵ Therefore see how you walk about circumspectly, not as unwise, but wise; ¹⁶ buying in the opportunity, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Therefore be not unwise, but understand whatsoever is the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ Be not drunk with wine, in which there is riot, but be ye filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, ²⁰ always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; ²¹ being submissive to one another in the fear of Christ. ²² Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord, ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is submissive to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her; ²⁶ in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless. ²⁸ So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself: ²⁹ for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; ³⁰ because we are members of his body: ³¹ on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh. ³² This is a great mystery: but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. ³³ Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband. ⁶ ¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. ² Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, ³ that it may be well with you, and you may live long upon the earth. ⁴ And fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. ⁵ Ye servants, obey those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in purity of your heart, as unto Christ; ⁶ not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the soul; ⁷ serving with good will as the Lord, and not men: ⁸ knowing that if each one may do good, he will receive this with the Lord, whether bond or free. ⁹ And, ye masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: knowing that their Master and yours is in the heavens, and that there is no respect of persons with him. ¹⁰ Finally, be filled up with dynamite in the Lord, and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand against the methods of the devil, ¹² because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies. ¹³ Therefore take the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all things, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and being shod as to your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ in all things taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit in every place, and watching unto this same thing in all perseverance and prayer for all the saints, ¹⁹ and for me that the word may be given unto me in opening of my mouth, boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chain; in order that in it I may preach boldly, as it behooves me to speak. ²¹ But in order that you may also know the things concerning me, how I am doing, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known to you: ²² whom I sent to you unto this same thing, in order that you may know the affairs concerning us, and he may comfort your hearts. ²³ Peace and divine love to the brethren, with faith, from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Grace be with all who love the Lord Jesus Christ with divine love in purity.

Philippians

¹ ¹ Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. ² Grace and peace unto you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ I thank my God for every mention of you, ⁴ always in all my prayer with joy making supplication, ⁵ for your fellowship in the gospel from the first clay until now; ⁶ having confidence as to this same thing, that the one having begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Jesus Christ: ⁷ as it is righteous for me to think in behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, that you are all my fellow-partakers of the grace. ⁸ For God is my witness, how I long after you in the affections of Jesus Christ. ⁹ And I pray this, that your divine love may yet more and more abound in perfect knowledge and all understanding; ¹⁰ in order that you may distinguish those things which differ; that you may be pure and without offence in the day of Christ; ¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. ¹² But I wish you, brethren, to know that the affairs appertaining to me have turned out rather unto the promotion of the gospel. ¹³ So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the pretorian army, and to all the rest; ¹⁴ and many of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are bold to speak the word of God more fluently without fear. ¹⁵ Some indeed through envy and strife, and some through good will, are preaching Christ: ¹⁶ the latter from divine love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel: ¹⁷ the former from self-seeking are proclaiming Christ insincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds. ¹⁸ For what is it? moreover that in every place, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and I rejoice in this, yes, and I will rejoice. ¹⁹ For I know that this will turn out to me unto salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. ²¹ For Christ is my life, and death is my gain. ²² But if to live in the flesh, this shall be to me the fruit of the work, indeed I know not what I shall ask. ²³ But I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ; for this is far better: ²⁴ but to remain in the flesh is safer on account of you. ²⁵ And having confidence in this, I know that I shall abide with you all, unto your promotion and the joy of your faith; ²⁶ in order that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may abound in me through my coming again unto you. ²⁷ Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel; ²⁸ and not being intimidated in anything by the adversaries: which is to them the manifestation of destruction, but of your salvation, and this is from God; ²⁹ because the blessing is conferred on you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but indeed to suffer for him: ³⁰ having the same conflict as you saw in me, and now hearing me. ² ¹ If then there is any consolation in Christ, if there is any comfort of divine love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercies, ² fill my joy, that you may think the same thing, having the same divine love, being like-minded, thinking this one thing; ³ that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves; ⁴ looking not each after your own interests, but each after that of others. ⁵ Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus: ⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God, ⁷ but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man; ⁸ he humbled himself, being obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. ⁹ Therefore God has indeed exalted him, and given him a name above every name; ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee must bow, of things in heaven and things upon the earth and things beneath the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, unto the glory of God the Father. ¹² So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; ¹³ for God is the one working in you both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure. ¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputatious; ¹⁵ in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain. ¹⁷ But if indeed I am poured out for a sacrifice and an offering for your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice along with you all; ¹⁸ but you also rejoice in this same thing, and rejoice along with me. ¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus, speedily to send unto you Timothy, in order that I may also be delighted, having learned the things concerning you. ²⁰ For I have no one like-minded, who will nobly remember the things concerning you; ²¹ for all are seeking after their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ. ²² But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel. ²³ Indeed then I hope to send him, so soon as I may learn the things concerning myself: ²⁴ but I trust in the Lord that I myself will come speedily. ²⁵ But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, and apostle and the minister of my necessity; ²⁶ since he was longing after you all, and grieving, because you heard that he was sick. ²⁷ For he was indeed nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not only him, but me also, in order that I may not have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ Therefore I the more diligently, in order that, seeing him, you may rejoice again, and I may not be without sorrow. ²⁹ Then receive him in the Lord with all joy, and have such in honor: ³⁰ because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me. ³ ¹ Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you indeed is not burdensome to me, but it is safe to you. ² Beware of dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the counterfeit circumcision. ³ For we are the circumcision, who serve the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, also having no confidence in the flesh: ⁴ even though also having confidence in the flesh. If any other one seems to have confidence in the flesh, I the more: ⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ in reference to zeal, persecuting the church, according to righteousness which was in the law being blameless. ⁷ Those things which were gained to me, these I counted loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ Yes truly, I even counted all things loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I suffer the loss of all things, and I consider them but excrements, that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and may be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ, the righteousness of God through faith: ¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; ¹¹ if perchance I may attain unto the resurrection which is out from the dead. ¹² Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it; ¹⁴ but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore let us, so many as are perfect, think the same thing: and if you think otherwise in any respect, God will also reveal this to you: ¹⁶ only, whereunto we have already attained, to walk by the same rule. ¹⁷ Be ye my imitators, brethren, and mark those thus walking about as you have us an example. ¹⁸ For many walk about, of whom I frequently spoke to you, and now I speak even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. ²⁰ For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: ²¹ who will transform the body of our humility, similitudinous to the body of his own glory, according to the energy by which he is able indeed to subdue all things to himself. ⁴ ¹ So, my beloved and longed for brethren, my joy and my crown, stand fast in the Lord, beloved. ² I exhort, Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same thing in the Lord. ³ Yea, I also entreat thee, noble yoke-fellow, assist those women, whosoever labored with me in the gospel, both along with Clement, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life. ⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always: I say to you again, Rejoice. ⁵ Let your clemency be made known to all men; the Lord is nigh. ⁶ Be solicitous about nothing; but in all prayer and supplication, let your request be made known to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, that passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸ Finally, brethren, so many things as are true, so many things as are noble, so many things as are righteous, so many things as are pure, so many things as are lovely, so many things as are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things. ⁹ Whatsoever things you have indeed learned and received and heard and seen in me, do the same: and the God of peace will be with you. ¹⁰ But I greatly rejoice in the Lord, because indeed you have at length revived to think about me; in whatsoever you indeed were thinking, nevertheless you lacked opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I speak concerning deficiency: for I have learned to be content with those things amid which I am. ¹² I indeed know how to be poor, and I know how to abound: in every thing and in all things I learned both to flourish and to be poor, both to abound and to be destitute. ¹³ I can do all things through him who fills me up with dynamite. ¹⁴ Moreover you did beautifully, communicating with my tribulation. ¹⁵ And you indeed know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the word of giving and receiving, except you alone; ¹⁶ because also in Thessalonica both once and twice you sent to my need. ¹⁷ Not that I seek a gift; but I seek fruit abounding to your credit. ¹⁸ But I have all things, and I abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus those things from you, an odor of a sweet savor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. ¹⁹ But my God will supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ To God even our Father be the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen. ²¹ Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me salute you. ²² All the saints, and especially those from the house of Caesar, salute you. ²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

Colossians

¹ ¹ Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Timothy, ² to the saints who are in Colossae and the faithful brethren in Christ. Grace to you and peace from God our Father. ³ We give thanks to God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the divine love which you have toward all the saints. ⁵ on account of the hope which awaits you in the heavens, which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, ⁶ having come to you, as it is indeed in the whole world bearing fruit and increasing, as also among you, from the day on which you heard and have known the grace of God in truth; ⁷ as you have learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is the faithful minister of Christ your behalf, ⁸ who also having revealed to us your divine love in the Spirit. ⁹ Therefore we, from the day on which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the perfect knowledge of his will in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰ that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all loyalty, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the perfect knowledge of God. ¹¹ being impowered with all power, according to the might of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy; ¹² giving thanks to the Father, who has made us worthy unto a participation of the inheritance of the saints in light; ¹³ who delivered us from the power of darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the remission of sins: ¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, being the first begotten of all creation, ¹⁶ because in him all things are created, in the heavens and upon the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All things were created by him, and unto him; ¹⁷ and he before all things, and all things consist in him: ¹⁸ and himself is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, in order that in all things himself may be preeminent: ¹⁹ because in him all fulness is pleased to dwell; ²⁰ and through him, to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross: through him, whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens. ²¹ And you, being at one time aliens and enemies in your minds on account of wicked works, nevertheless he has now reconciled ²² in the body of his cross through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreprovable before him, ²³ if you abide in the faith, having been grounded and firm, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, having been preached in all creation which is under heaven; whose minister I Paul became. ²⁴ Now I rejoice in sufferings in your behalf, and am filling up the residue of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body, which is the church; ²⁵ whose minister I became, according to the economy of God which was given to me unto you, to fulfill the word of God, ²⁶ the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from the generations: but is now made manifest to his saints, ²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory: ²⁸ whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man perfect in Christ; ²⁹ unto which I also labor, agonizing according to his energy, working in me with power. ² ¹ For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have in behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and so many as have not seen my face in the flesh; ² in order that their hearts may be comforted, being knitted together in divine love, and in all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the perfect knowledge of the mystery of God, of Christ, ³ in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ I say this in order that no one may deceive you with a persuasive speech. ⁵ For if I am absent in the flesh, but I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the establishment of your faith toward Christ. ⁶ Therefore as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk about in him, ⁷ having been rooted and grounded in him, and confirmed in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in thanksgiving. ⁸ See that no one shall be deceiving you through philosophy and empty delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ, ⁹ because in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, ¹⁰ and you are complete in him, who is the head of all government and authority: ¹¹ in whom you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of depravity, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you are also raised by the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead: ¹³ and you, being dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your depravity, has he created life in you along with himself, having forgiven us all transgressions, ¹⁴ having blotted out the handwriting which was against us in ordinances, which was antagonistical to us: and took it out from the midst, having nailed it to the cross; ¹⁵ having destroyed governments and authorities, he made a public exhibition of them triumphing over them on it. ¹⁶ Therefore let no one judge you in meat, or in drink, or in the participation of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath: ¹⁷ which things are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is of Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one purposely rob you of your prize by humiliation and worship of the angels, trusting in those things which he has seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his depravity, ¹⁹ and not holding the Head, from which the entire body, by joints and ligaments being supplied and knitted together, increases the increase of God. ²⁰ If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world, ²¹ Touch not, taste not, handle not, ²² those things which are all unto destruction by use according to the commandments and teachings of the people? ²³ Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh. ³ ¹ If then ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God; ² think about those things above, and not things upon the earth. ³ For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God: ⁴ when Christ, your life, may appear, then will you also appear with him in glory. ⁵ Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; ⁶ through which the wrath of God comes. ⁷ In which you indeed at one time did walk about, when you lived in them: ⁸ but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths: ⁹ lie not to one another, having laid aside the old man with his habits, ¹⁰ and having put on the new man, who is renewed into perfect knowledge according to the image of him who created him: ¹¹ where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond, free: but Christ is all things, and in all. ¹² Therefore, as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on affections of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; ¹³ forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any one may have a quarrel against any one; as Christ also forgave you, so indeed do you likewise: ¹⁴ and in all these things put on divine love, which is the bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, in which you are called in one body; and be ye thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of God dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another, in all wisdom, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with grace making melody in your hearts to God; ¹⁷ and every thing whatsoever you may do, in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. ¹⁸ Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord. ¹⁹ Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them. ²⁰ Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. ²¹ Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged. ²² Ye servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, pleasing men, but of purity of heart, fearing the Lord. ²³ Whatsoever you may do, work from your soul, as for the Lord, and not for men; ²⁴ knowing that you will receive the recompense of the inheritance from the Lord. Serve the Lord Christ; ²⁵ for the one doing wrong receives that for which he did the injustice: and there is no respect of persons. ⁴ ¹ Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. ² Be constant in prayer, watching in the same with thanksgiving; ³ at the same time also praying for us, in order that God may open to us the door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, on account of which I indeed am bound; ⁴ in order that I may manifest the same, as it behooves me to speak. ⁵ Walk about in wisdom toward the aliens, buying in the opportunity. ⁶ Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how it behooves you to answer each one. ⁷ Tychicus, my beloved brother, and faithful minister and fellow-laborer in the Lord, will make known to you all things which appertain to me: ⁸ whom I sent unto you for this same thing, in order that you may know the things concerning us, and he may comfort your hearts; ⁹ along with our faithful and beloved brother, Onesimus, who is from you; they will truly make known all things to you. ¹⁰ Aristarchus my fellow-soldier salutes you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas concerning whom you received commandments; if he may come to you, receive him; ¹¹ and Jesus, called Justus, who being of the circumcision: these are my only fellow-laborers in the kingdom of God, who have been made a comfort to me. ¹² Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you. ¹³ For I testify to him, that he always has much solicitude for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those who are in Hierapolis. ¹⁴ Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas salute you. ¹⁵ Salute the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in their house. ¹⁶ And when the letter may be read by you, cause that it may also be read in the church of the Laodiceans; and that you may also read the letter from Laodicea. ¹⁷ And say to Archippus; Take heed to the ministry which you received in the Lord, that you may fill it. ¹⁸ Salutation of me Paul with my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

1 Thessalonians

¹ ¹ Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace. ² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention in our prayers; ³ incessantly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God even our Father; ⁴ knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election, ⁵ because our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what sort we were among you for your sakes. ⁶ And you became imitators of us, and the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with the joy of the Holy Ghost; ⁷ so that you are an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For from you the word of the Lord echoed out, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone forth; so that we have no need to say any thing: ⁹ for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God, ¹⁰ and to await his Son out of the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus the one delivering us from the wrath to come. ² ¹ For you know, brethren, our coming unto you, that it was not in vain: ² but having suffered, and been abused, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict. ³ For our exhortation was not from delusion, nor from impurity, nor in guile: ⁴ but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts, ⁵ For at that time we were not in word of flattery, as you know, nor in a pretext of covetousness, God is our witness; ⁶ nor seeking glory from men, nor from you, nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as the apostles of Christ; ⁷ but we were gentle in the midst of you, as if a nurse may cherish her children; ⁸ being so desirous of you, that we are anxious not only to give the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you are beloved unto us. ⁹ For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil: night and day working, that we should burden no one of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God, how sacredly and righteously and blamelessly we were unto you who believed: ¹¹ as you know, exhorting each one of you, as a father of his own children, and comforting you, ¹² and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. ¹³ And on account of this we also give thanks to God incessantly, because, receiving the word of God from us by hearing, you received it not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, who indeed works in you who believe. ¹⁴ For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Jesus Christ: because you suffered the same things from your fellow tribes, as they also from the Jews; ¹⁵ who even killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and are displeasing to God, and hostile to all men; ¹⁶ forbidding that we should speak to the Gentiles in order that they may be saved; that they may fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. ¹⁷ But, brethren, we having been absent from you for the space of an hour, in presence, not in heart, we were the more exceedingly anxious to see your face with much desire. ¹⁸ Because we wish to come to you, I Paul indeed both once and twice; and Satan hindered me. ¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing, except you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? ²⁰ For you are our glory and joy. ³ ¹ Therefore no longer containing, we delighted to be left alone at Athens; ² and we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God in the gospel of Christ, in order to establish you, and exhort you concerning your faith; ³ that no one should be shaken in these tribulations. For you know that for this we are appointed. ⁴ For indeed, when we were with you, we foretold you that we are about to suffer tribulation; as indeed took place, and you know it. ⁵ Therefore I indeed, no longer containing, sent that I might know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter tempted you, and our labor may be in vain. ⁶ But Timothy, having already come to us from you, and proclaimed to us the good news of your faith and your divine love, and that you always have a good mention of us, longing to see us, as we do to see you; ⁷ therefore we were comforted, brethren, over you in all our distress and tribulation on account of your faith; ⁸ because we now live, if you stand in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanks are we able to render unto God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we rejoice on account of you before our God; ¹⁰ night and day praying incessantly that we may see your face, and perfect the deficiencies of your faith? ¹¹ But God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you: ¹² and the Lord fill you and cause you to superabound in divine love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also do towards you; ¹³ in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness in the presence of God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints: amen. ⁴ ¹ Finally therefore, brethren, we pray you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how it behooves you to walk about and to please God, as you do indeed walk about, in order that you may abound more and more. ² For you know what promises we gave unto you through our Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication; ⁴ that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵ not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God; ⁶ that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you. ⁷ For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. ⁸ Therefore the one rejecting (sanctification), does not reject man, but God, who indeed gives to you his Holy Spirit. ⁹ But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another with divine love; ¹⁰ for you indeed are doing the same thing unto all the brethren in all Macedonia. And we exhort you, brethren, that you abound more and more; ¹¹ and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you; ¹² in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing. ¹³ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep; in order that you may not sorrow, even as those having no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and is risen, so also will God bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. ¹⁵ For we speak this to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, can not anticipate those who are asleep, ¹⁶ because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; ¹⁷ then we who are alive, who are left, will at the same time along with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord. ¹⁸ So comfort one another with these words. ⁵ ¹ But concerning the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write to you; ² for you yourselves know well, that the day of the Lord is so coming like a thief in the night. ³ When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman in gestation; and they can not escape. ⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may overtake you like a thief: ⁵ for you are all the sons of light, and the sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness; ⁶ then therefore let us not sleep like the rest, but watch and be sober. ⁷ For those sleeping, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, get drunk in the night: ⁸ but let us, who are of the day, be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and divine love; and the helmet, the hope of salvation: ⁹ because God did not put us forth unto wrath, but unto the obtainment of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ the one having died for us, in order that, whether we are awake or asleep, we shall at the same time live with him. ¹¹ Therefore exhort one another, and edify either the other, as you indeed are doing. ¹² But we intreat you, brethren, to know those who are laboring among you, and standing before you in the Lord, and admonishing you; ¹³ and that you yourselves esteem them exceedingly in divine love for the sake of their work. Live in peace among yourselves. ¹⁴ And we, exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the small-souled people, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all. ¹⁵ See that no one may return evil for evil to any one; but always pursue good toward one another, and toward all. ¹⁶ Rejoice evermore; ¹⁷ pray without ceasing; ¹⁸ in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you. ¹⁹ Quench not the Spirit; ²⁰ despise not prophesying; ²¹ but prove all things; and hold fast to the beautiful; ²² abstain from every evil sight. ²³ And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Faithful is the one calling you, who indeed will do it. ²⁵ Brethren, pray for us. ²⁶ Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss. ²⁷ I adjure you in the name of the Lord, that this epistle shall be read to all the brethren. ²⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

2 Thessalonians

¹ ¹ Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the Church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. ³ We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as it is worthy, because your faith increases, and the divine love of each one of you all towards one another abounds more and more; ⁴ so that we ourselves rejoice over you in the churches of God, on account of your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure; ⁵ the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you indeed suffer: ⁶ if indeed it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them who are troubling you, ⁷ and to you who are troubled, rest with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power ⁸ in the fire of flame, dispensing vengeance to those who know not God, and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus: ⁹ who shall suffer vengeance, eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, ¹⁰ when he may come to be glorified among his saints, and among all those who believe, to be wondered at in that day, because our testimony was believed by you. ¹¹ Unto which indeed we are praying incessantly for you, in order that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and work of faith, with power; ¹² in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and our Lord Jesus Christ. ² ¹ But we beseech you, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering unto him; ² that you be not suddenly shaken from your mind, nor disturbed, whether by a spirit, or through word, or a letter as by us, as that the day of the Lord has come. ³ Let no one deceive you in any way: because unless there may first be an apostasy and the man of lawlessness may be revealed, the son of perdition, ⁴ the one opposing and exalting himself above everything that is called God or divinity; so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself off that he is God. ⁵ Do you not remember that still being with you, I told you these things? ⁶ And now you know that which hinders, that he should be revealed in his time. ⁷ For already the mystery of lawlessness is working: only there is one now hindering, until he may be taken out of the midst; ⁸ then indeed will the lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will remove by the spirit of his mouth, and will exterminate by the brightness of his coming; ⁹ whose coming is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And on this account God sends to them the working of delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹² in order that they may all be condemned who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in unrighteousness. ¹³ But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth; ¹⁴ unto which He also called you through our gospel, unto the possession of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Then therefore, brethren, stand, and hold fast the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or by our epistle: ¹⁶ and our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, the one having loved us and given eternal consolation and good hope through grace, ¹⁷ comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good work and word. ³ ¹ Finally, brethren, pray for us in order that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, as even unto you: ² and in order that we may be delivered from the ungodly and wicked men; for faith does not belong to all. ³ But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and keep you from the evil one. ⁴ And we have trusted in the Lord in your behalf, that you are doing, and will do whatsoever we command. ⁵ And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and the patience of Christ. ⁶ And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks about disorderly, and not according to the teaching they received from us. ⁷ For you yourselves know how it behooves you to imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you; ⁸ neither did we eat bread with any one gratuitously, but with labor and toil, night and day working, that we might not burden any one of you: ⁹ not because we have not the right, but in order that we may give ourselves an example to you, that you may imitate us. ¹⁰ For indeed when we were with you, we proclaimed this to you, that if any one does not wish to work, let him not eat. ¹¹ For we hear that there are certain ones walking about among you disorderly, doing nothing, but they are busybodies: ¹² but we command such and exhort them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietude working, they must eat their own bread. ¹³ But you, brethren, be not weary doing well. ¹⁴ But if any one does not obey our word through the epistle, note him; do not keep company with him; in order that he may be ashamed; ¹⁵ consider him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. ¹⁶ The Lord of peace himself grant unto you peace always in every way. The Lord be with you all. ¹⁷ Salutation of me Paul with my own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write. ¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

1 Timothy

¹ ¹ Paul, the apostle of Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Jesus Christ our hope; ² to Timothy, my beloved son in the faith. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. ³ As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy, ⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith: ⁵ but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy: ⁶ from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking, ⁷ wishing to be teachers of the law, not knowing either what they are saying, or concerning what things they do affirm. ⁸ But we know that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully; ⁹ knowing this, that the law is not made for the righteous, but for the unrighteous and disorderly, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and the profane, for patricides, matricides and homocides, ¹⁰ for fornicators, for Sodomites, for kidnapers, for liars, for perjurers, and if any thing else is opposed to healthy teaching; ¹¹ according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted. ¹² I give thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord, the one having filled me up with dynamite, because he considered me faithful, having put me in the ministry; ¹³ being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant; ¹⁴ but the grace of our Lord with faith and the divine love which is in Christ Jesus superabounded. ¹⁵ It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief: ¹⁶ but on this account I obtained mercy, in order that Jesus Christ might in me the chief show forth all longsuffering, for an example of those about to believe on him unto eternal life. ¹⁷ But to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, be honor and glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen. ¹⁸ This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same; ¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith; ²⁰ of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. ² ¹ Moreover, first of all things, I exhort you, that prayers, supplications, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made in behalf of all men; ² for kings and all who are in authority; in order that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty. ³ This is beautiful and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; ⁴ who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the perfect knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and there is also one mediator of God and men, the man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ the one having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in due time; ⁷ in which I have been placed a herald and an apostle I speak the truth, I lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and in truth. ⁸ Therefore I wish that men in every place would all pray, holding up holy hands, without wrath and doubting: ⁹ likewise that the women adorn themselves in comely apparel, with modesty and prudence; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly garments; ¹⁰ but whatsoever becomes women professing godliness, through good works. ¹¹ Let a woman learn in silence in all submission; ¹² but I do not permit a woman to dictate or usurp authority over her husband, but to be in silence. ¹³ For Adam was first created, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression; ¹⁵ but she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they may abide in faith and in divine love and in sanctification with prudence. ³ ¹ It is a faithful saying, If any one desires the episcopacy, he covets a beautiful work. ² Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach, ³ not given to wine, not a controvertist; but gentle, peaceable, not a money lover; ⁴ ruling his own house beautifully; having children in subordination with all gravity; ⁵ but if any one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God? ⁶ not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil. ⁷ But it also behooves him indeed to have a beautiful testimony from the aliens, in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. ⁸ Likewise let the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not fond of filthy lucre; ⁹ having the testimony of faith in a pure conscience. ¹⁰ And let them also first be proven; then let them minister the office of deacon, being irreproachable. ¹¹ Likewise let their wives be grave, not tattlers, modest, faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses beautifully. ¹³ For those having ministered the office of a deacon beautifully procure to themselves beautiful progress, and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ I write these things to you, hoping to come to you more speedily; ¹⁵ but if I tarry, in order that you may know how it behooves you to deport yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. ¹⁶ And assuredly great is the mystery of godliness; Who is manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen of angels, was preached among the Gentiles, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory. ⁴ ¹ But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth. ⁴ Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving: ⁵ for it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer. ⁶ Submitting these things to the brethren, you will be a beautiful minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith, and the beautiful teaching which you have followed; ⁷ but reject the unsanctified and silly stories: but exercise yourself unto godliness. ⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable unto little; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. ⁹ This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation. ¹⁰ For unto this we toil and agonize, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful. ¹¹ Command and teach these things. ¹² Let no one look with contempt upon your youth; but be you an example of the faithful, in word, in deportment, in divine love, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift which is in you, which was given unto you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. ¹⁵ Be diligent in these things; give yourself wholly unto them; in order that your progress may be manifest to all. ¹⁶ Take heed to yourself and the teaching: continue in these things; for doing this you will indeed save yourself and those who hear you. ⁵ ¹ Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers: ² the elderly women as mothers; the younger women as sisters, in all purity. ³ Honor widows who are truly widows. ⁴ But if any widow has children, or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety to their own house, and to give benefactions to their ancestors: for this is acceptable in the sight of God. ⁵ She who is truly a widow, and left alone, hopes in God, and abides in prayers and supplication night and day; ⁶ but she who is wanton is dead though living. ⁷ Indeed command these things, in order that they may be blameless. ⁸ But if any one provides not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. ⁹ Let a widow not be taken into account under three score years, the wife of one husband, ¹⁰ being witness in beautiful works; if she has brought up children, if she has entertained strangers, if she has washed the feet of saints, if she has succored those in tribulation, if she has followed in every good work. ¹¹ But reject the younger widows: for when they may wax wanton against Christ, they wish to marry; ¹² having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith: ¹³ and at the same time they learn to be idle, going about houses; and not only idle, but also loquacious even busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. ¹⁴ Therefore I wish the younger women to marry, to raise up children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to the adversary for the sake of reproach; ¹⁵ for already certain ones have turned away after Satan. ¹⁶ If any faithful woman has widows, let her support them, and let not the church be burdened; in order that she may give her attention to those who are truly widows. ¹⁷ Let the elders who stand before the people beautifully, be considered worthy of double remuneration, especially those laboring in the word and teaching. ¹⁸ For the scripture says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and, The laborer is worthy of his hire. ¹⁹ Bring not an accusation against an elder, except before two or three witnesses. ²⁰ Convict those who sin before all, in order that the rest may also have fear. ²¹ I testify before God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you must guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. ²² Lay hands quickly on no one, and be not partaker of other men's sins. ²³ Keep yourself pure. No longer drink water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and on account of your frequent sickness. ²⁴ The sins of some men are manifest beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they also follow after: ²⁵ likewise truly are good works manifested beforehand; and those which are otherwise are not able to be hidden. ⁶ ¹ Let the servants so many as are under the yoke, esteem those who are their masters worthy of all honor, in order that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed. ² But let those that have faithful masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather let them serve them, because they are the faithful and beloved who are partaking of the benefaction. Command these things and exhort them. ³ If any one teaches another doctrine, and does not give heed to the sound words which belonged to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; ⁴ he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings, ⁵ wranglings of men having been corrupted as to their mind and turned away from the truth, considering that gain is godliness. ⁶ Godliness with contentment is great gain, ⁷ for because we have brought nothing into the world, we are not able to carry any thing out; ⁸ however having food and raiment we shall be contented with these. ⁹ But those wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown the people in destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils: which some seeking after have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ¹¹ But you, O man of God, fly from these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, divine love, patience, meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses. ¹³ I charge you before God, who creates life in all things, and Jesus Christ, who witnessed a beautiful testimony before Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴ that you keep the commandment, spotless and pure, unto the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁵ which the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of the kings, and Lord of the lords, will manifest in his own due times; ¹⁶ he alone having immortality, inhabiting light unapproachable; whom no one of men has seen, or is able to see: to whom be honor and power eternal. Amen. ¹⁷ Charge the rich in this world not to think high things, nor to hope in uncertain riches, but in God, who richly supplies us all things for our enjoyment; ¹⁸ that they do good, be rich in good works, be cheerful givers, ready communicators; ¹⁹ laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed. ²⁰ O Timothy, stand guard over that which has been committed to you, avoiding unsanctified, empty talks and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called, ²¹ which some proclaiming have made shipwreck concerning the faith. Grace be with you.