Ephesians -1 Timothy Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the holy ones being in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the holy ones being 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 Praised be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he having praised us in every spiritual praise in heavenly things in Christ: ⁴ As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love: ⁵ Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will, ⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he rendered us acceptable in the beloved. ⁷ In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace; ⁸ In which he abounded to us in all wisdom and intelligence; ⁹ Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself: ¹⁰ For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him: ¹¹ In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will: ¹² For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ. ¹³ In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise, ¹⁴ Which is the pledge of our inheritance for the redemption of the acquisition, to the praise of his glory. ¹⁵ For this, I also, having heard the faith among you in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the holy, ¹⁶ Cease not returning thanks for you, making remembrance of you in my prayers; ¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in his knowledge: ¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones, ¹⁹ And what the surpassing greatness of his power to us believing, according to the action of the might of his strength, ²⁰ Which he performed in Christ, having raised him from the dead, and he sat on his right hand in the heavenlies, ²¹ Above every beginning, and authority, and power, and property, and every name named, not only in this life, but in that about to be: ²² And placed all things under his, feet, and gave him head over all things to the church, ²³ Which is his body, the completion of him completing all things in all. ² ¹ And ye being dead in faults and in sins; ² In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience: ³ Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us, ⁵ And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;) ⁶ And raised together, and seated together in heavenlies in Christ Jesus: ⁷ That he might show in times coming the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God: ⁹ Not of works, lest any one should boast. ¹⁰ For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them., ¹¹ Wherefore remember, that ye then the nations in the flesh, being reckoned Uncircumcision by the Circumcision in the flesh reckoned made by hands; ¹² That ye were in that time without Christy alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: ¹³ And now in Christ Jesus ye who then being far off have become near in the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, having made both one, and having loosed the middle partition wall of the enclosure; ¹⁵ The enmity in his flesh, the law of commands in enactments, having left unemployed; that he might create in himself one new man, making peace; ¹⁶ And that he might reconcile anew both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the eninity in it: ¹⁷ And having come, he announced good news, peace to you afar off, and to those near. ¹⁸ For by him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the holy, and the household of God; ²⁰ Built upon the foundation of the sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone; ²¹ In whom all the building fitted together increases into a holy temple in the Lord: ²² In whom also ye are builded together for the dwelling of God in the Spirit. ³ ¹ For this, I Paul, the imprisoned of Christ Jesus for you the nations, ² If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you: ³ That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly, ⁴ By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,) ⁵ Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit: ⁶ For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news: ⁷ Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power ⁸ To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ. ⁹ And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ: ¹⁰ That it might now be made known to beginnings and powers in the heavenlies by the church the manifold wisdom of God, ¹¹ According to the purpose of times immemorial which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord: ¹² In whom we have freedom of speech and access with confidence by his faith. ¹³ Wherefore I desire not to lose courage in my pressures for you, which is your glory. ¹⁴ For this I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ Of whom all the family in the heavens and upon earth is named, ¹⁶ That he might give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the interior man; ¹⁷ For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid, ¹⁸ That ye might be fully able to comprehend with all the holy what the length, and breadth, and depth, and height; ¹⁹ To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God. ²⁰ And to him being able to do above all things more abundantly above what we ask or think, according to the power being energetic in us, ²¹ To him the glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations of the times of times. Amen. ⁴ ¹ Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called, ² With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love; ³ Striving earnestly to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ One body, and one Spirit, as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ One Lord, one faith, one immersion, ⁶ One God and Father of all, who over all, and through all, and in you all. ⁷ And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. ⁸ Wherefore he says, Having ascended into height, he made captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. ⁹ (And so having ascended, what is it except that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He having descended is the same having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill up all things.) ¹¹ And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers; ¹² For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ: ¹³ Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ. ¹⁴ That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit; ¹⁵ And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ: ¹⁶ From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love. ¹⁷ Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart; ¹⁹ Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching. ²⁰ And ye have not so learned Christ; ²¹ If ye heard him, and were taught in him, as is the truth in Jesus: ²² For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit; ²³ And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴ And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth. ²⁵ Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another. ²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your fit of anger: ²⁷ Neither give place to the accuser. ²⁸ He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need. ²⁹ Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing. ³⁰ And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness: ³² And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you. ⁵ ¹ Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children; ² And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor. ³ And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy; ⁴ And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness. ⁵ For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Be ye not therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light: ⁹ (For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;) ¹⁰ Trying what is pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute. ¹² For the things done secretly by them it is also shameful to speak. ¹³ And all things refuted, by light are made manifest: for everything made manifest is light. ¹⁴ Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee. ¹⁵ See therefore how ye walk accurately, not as unwise, but as wise, ¹⁶ Making purchase of time, for the days are evil. ¹⁷ For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ Speaking to yourselves on harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, singing and playing on the harp in your heart to the Lord; ²⁰ Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father; ²¹ Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God. ²² Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; ²⁶ That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word, ²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless. ²⁸ So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself. ²⁹ For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church: ³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹ For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. ³² This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church. ³³ But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband. ⁶ ¹ Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just. ² Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;) ³ That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth. ⁴ And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord. ⁵ Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ; ⁶ Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul: ⁷ With affection serving the Lord, and not men. ⁸ Knowing that whatever good each might do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or free. ⁹ And, lords, do ye the same things to them, letting go threatening: knowing that also your own Lord is in the heavens; and distinction of persons is not with him. ¹⁰ As to the rest, my brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the strength of his power. ¹¹ Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser. ¹² For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things. ¹³ For this take up the complete armor of God, that ye might be able to withstand in the evil day, and having effected all things, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girded your loins around with truth, and put on the armor of justice; ¹⁵ And fastened under the feet in preparation of the good news of peace; ¹⁶ Over all, having taken the shield of faith, in which ye shall be able to quench all the inflamed darts of evil. ¹⁷ And take ye the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy: ¹⁹ And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news, ²⁰ For which I am an ambassador in perplexity: that in it I might speak freely, as I ought to speak. ²¹ And that ye also might know the things concerning me, what I do, Tychicus will make all things known to you, the dearly beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord: ²² Whom I sent to you for this same, that ye might know the things concerning us, and he might comfort your hearts. ²³ Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Grace with all loving our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibleness. Amen.

Philippians

¹ ¹ Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants: ² Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ I return thanks to my God for all your remembrance, ⁴ Always in all my prayer for you all with joy making prayer, ⁵ For your mutual participation in the good news from the first day until now; ⁶ Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ: ⁷ As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me. ⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. ⁹ And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence; ¹⁰ For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ; ¹¹ Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. ¹² And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things. concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news; ¹³ So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest; ¹⁴ And many of the brethren in the Lord, having trusted to my bonds, more abundantly dared to speak the word fearlessly. ¹⁵ And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ. ¹⁶ Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds: ¹⁷ And some of love, knowing that I am placed for justification of the good news: ¹⁸ For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice. ¹⁹ For I know that this shall be turned to me for salvation by your prayer, and the furnishing more of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ²⁰ According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death. ²¹ For me to live is Christ, and to die gain. ²² And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know not ²³ For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:) ²⁴ And to tarry yet longer in the flesh is more necessary for you. ²⁵ And confident in this, I know that I shall remain, and shall remain near together with you all for your advancement and joy of faith: ²⁶ That your boasting may abound in Jesus Christ in me, for my coming again to you. ²⁷ Only live as citizens worthy of the good news of Christ: that whether coming and seeing you, whether being absent, I shall bear the things concerning you, that ye stand in one spirit, one soul, fighting together in faith of the good news; ²⁸ And terrified in nothing by them being hostile to you: which to them is truly an indication of destruction, and to you of salvation, and this from God. ²⁹ For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him; ³⁰ Having the same struggle which ye saw in me, and now hear in me. ² ¹ If therefore any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any mutual participation of the Spirit, if any compassions and mercies, ² Fill ye up my joy, that ye may have the same in mind, having the same love, unanimous, being one in mind. ³ Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves. ⁴ Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others. ⁵ For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus; ⁶ Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God ⁷ But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men: ⁸ And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross. ⁹ Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name: ¹⁰ That in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of the heavenlies, and of terrestrial things, and things under earth ¹¹ And every tongue should avow that the Lord is Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father. ¹² Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation. ¹³ For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence. ¹⁴ Do ye all things without murmurings and discussions: ¹⁵ That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world; ¹⁶ Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain. ¹⁷ But if also I am poured out upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice together with you all. ¹⁸ And do ye also rejoice at the same, and rejoice together with me. ¹⁹ And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy quickly to you, that I also be courageous, having known the things concerning you. ²⁰ For I have none having a like soul, who naturally will have care for the things concerning you. ²¹ For they all seek the things of themselves, and not the things of Christ Jesus. ²² And ye know his proof, that, as a child to a father, he served with me in the good news. ²³ Him therefore I truly hope to send, whenever I shall see from it the things concerning me. ²⁴ And I have trusted in the Lord that I myself also shall come quickly. ²⁵ And I thought necessary Epaphroditus, my brother, and cooperator, and fellow soldier, and your sent, and workman of my necessity, be sent to you. ²⁶ Since he was longing for you all, and harassed because ye heard that he was sick. ²⁷ For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief. ²⁸ Therefore I sent him the more earnestly, that, seeing him, ye might again rejoice, and I be more free from sorrow. ²⁹ Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed. ³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me. ³ ¹ As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me is not slothful, and to you safe. ² Look out for dogs, look out for evil workmen, look out for the incision. ³ For we are the circumcision, serving God in spirit, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh. ⁴ Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more: ⁵ Circumcision done the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with. ⁷ But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ. ⁸ But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ, ⁹ And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith: ¹⁰ To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death; ¹¹ If somehow I shall arrive at the rising up of the dead. ¹² Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, ¹⁴ I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you. ¹⁶ But, at what we before arrived, to walk by the same rule, to think the same. ¹⁷ Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type. ¹⁸ (For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹ Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.) ²⁰ For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: ²¹ Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself. ⁴ ¹ Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand ye in the Lord, dearly beloved. ² I beseech Euodias, and I beseech Syntyche, to think the same in the Lord. ³ And I also ask thee, worthy yoke-fellow, aid those women who fought in company with me in the good news, and with Clement, and the rest of my co-workers, whose names in the book of life. ⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always: again say I, Do ye rejoice. ⁵ Let your fitness be known to all men. The Lord is near. ⁶ Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸ As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things. ⁹ And what things ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you. ¹⁰ And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that once already ye recovered new vigor; for thinking of me, upon whom ye were thinking, and ye had not time. ¹¹ Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition. ¹² And I know how to be humble, and I know how to abound in every thing: and in all I am instructed also to be full and to hunger, and to abound and to be in want. ¹³ I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me. ¹⁴ But ye did well, participating together in my pressure. ¹⁵ And ye also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I went out from Macedonia, no church participated with me in the word of donation and accepting, except ye alone. ¹⁶ For also in Thessalonica, and once, and twice, ye sent to my necessity. ¹⁷ Not that I covet a gift: but I covet fruit abounding to your word. ¹⁸ And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And God will fill up all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ And to God and our Father the glory for the times of times. Amen. ²¹ Greet ye every one holy in Christ Jesus. The brethren with me greet you. ²² All the holy greet you, and chiefly they from Caesar's house. ²³ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Colossians

¹ ¹ Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, ² To the holy among the Colossians, and the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ We return thanks to God. and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, ⁴ Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and love to all the holy, ⁵ By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news; ⁶ Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth: ⁷ As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you; ⁸ He also having manifested to us your love in the Spirit. ⁹ For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; ¹⁰ For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; ¹¹ In all power being able according to the strength of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy. ¹² Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light: ¹³ Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love: ¹⁴ In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins: ¹⁵ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: ¹⁶ For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him: ¹⁷ And he is before all, and all things have been established by him. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all ¹⁹ For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell: ²⁰ And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens. ²¹ And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled ²² In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him: ²³ If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant; ²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church. ²⁵ Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God; ²⁶ The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones: ²⁷ To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: ²⁸ Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ jesus: ²⁹ For which also I am wearied, struggling according to his operation, working in me in power. ² ¹ For I wish you to know how great contest I have for you, and them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; ² That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ; ³ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ And this I say, lest any mislead you with persuasive arguments. ⁵ For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ⁶ Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him: ⁷ Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude. ⁸ See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power: ¹¹ In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults; ¹⁴ Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross ¹⁵ Having stripped off beginnings and powers, he made an example in freedom of speech, having led them in triumph in it. ¹⁶ Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths: ¹⁷ Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ. ¹⁸ Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, ¹⁹ And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God. ²⁰ If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize, ²¹ (Touch not; neither taste; neither shouldest thou handle; ²² Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men? ²³ Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh. ³ ¹ If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. ² Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth. ³ For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory. ⁵ Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry: ⁶ For these comes the Wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: ⁷ In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them. ⁸ And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth. ⁹ Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds; ¹⁰ And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him: ¹¹ Where no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, free: but Christ all things, and in all. ¹² Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering; ¹³ (Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.) ¹⁴ And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God act as umpire in your hearts, to which also, ye were called in one body: and be grateful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord. ¹⁷ And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. ¹⁸ Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord. ¹⁹ Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them. ²⁰ Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged. ²² Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God: ²³ And all, whatever ye do, work ye from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men; ²⁴ Knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. ²⁵ And he acting with injustice shall be taken care of for what he did unjustly: and there is no distinction of persons. ⁴ ¹ Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens. ² In prayer persevere, watching in it in gratitude ³ Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound; ⁴ That I might manifest, as is fitting for me to speak. ⁵ In wisdom walk toward them without, purchasing the time. ⁶ Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another. ⁷ All things concerning me shall Tychicus make known to you, a dearly beloved brother, and a faithful servant and fellowservant in the Lord: ⁸ Whom I sent to you for this same, that he might know the things concerning you, and comfort your hearts; ⁹ With Onesimus, the faithful and dearly beloved brother, who is of you. They shall make known to you all the thing here. ¹⁰ Aristarchus my fellowcaptive greets you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (for whom ye received commands: if he come to you, receive him;) ¹¹ And Jesus, called Justus, they being of the circumcision. These only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, which were a consolation to me. ¹² Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God. ¹³ For I bear testimony to him, that he has much zeal for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis. ¹⁴ Luke, the dearly beloved physician, greets you, and Demas. ¹⁵ Greet the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church in his house. ¹⁶ And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea. ¹⁷ And say to Archippus, Look out for the service which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fill it. ¹⁸ The greeting of Paul by my hand. Remember my bonds. Grace with you. Amen.

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, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. ² We return thanks to God always for you all, making remembrance of you in our prayers continually; ³ Remembering your work of faith, and fatigue of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father; ⁴ Knowing, brethren beloved, of God your selection. ⁵ For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake. ⁶ And ye were imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Holy Spirit: ⁷ So that ye were types to all believing in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For from you sounded forth the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith towards God went out; so that we have no need to speak any thing. ⁹ For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God; ¹⁰ And to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom be raised from the dead, Jesus, saving us from coming wrath. ² ¹ For ye yourselves know, brethren, our entrance to you, that it was not in vain: ² But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest. ³ For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit: ⁴ But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts: ⁵ For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness: ⁶ Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ. ⁷ But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children: ⁸ So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us. ⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God. ¹⁰ Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing: ¹¹ As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying, ¹² For you to walk worthy of God, calling you into his kingdom and glory. ¹³ For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing. ¹⁴ For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews: ¹⁵ They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men; ¹⁶ Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end. ¹⁷ And we, brethren, having been separated from you for a due measure of time, in face, not in heart, we were the more excessively zealous to see your face with much eager desire. ¹⁸ Wherefore we would have come to you, I Paul, truly also once and twice; and the adversary hindered us. ¹⁹ For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival? ²⁰ For ye are our glory and joy. ³ ¹ Wherefore no more concealing, we were content to be left among the Athenians alone: ² And sent Timothy, our brother, and servant of God, and our coworker in the good news of Christ, in order to make you firm, and comfort you for your faith ³ For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed. ⁴ For also, when we were with you, we told you before that we were about to be pressed; as also it was, and ye know. ⁵ For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain. ⁶ And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you: ⁷ For this, brethren, were we comforted in you in all our pressure, and necessity by your faith: ⁸ For now we live, if ye stand in the Lord. ⁹ For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God; ¹⁰ Night and day praying exceedingly to see your face, and to adjust things wanting of your faith? ¹¹ And God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you: ¹² And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you: ¹³ To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones. ⁴ ¹ Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound. ² For ye know what orders we gave you by the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication: ⁴ For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour; ⁵ Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God: ⁶ Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified. ⁷ But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration. ⁸ For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us. ⁹ And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. ¹⁰ For also ye do the same to all the brethren, them in the whole of Macedonia: and we beseech you, brethren, to more abound; ¹¹ And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you; ¹² That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing. ¹³ And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept. ¹⁵ For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first: ¹⁷ Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord. ¹⁸ Therefore comfort ye one another with these words. ⁵ ¹ And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you. ² For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes. ³ For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape. ⁴ And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you. ⁵ Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night. ⁸ And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation. ⁹ For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him. ¹¹ Wherefore comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do. ¹² And we ask you, brethren, to know those being fatigued among you, and set over you in the Lord, and reminding you; ¹³ And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves. ¹⁴ And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all. ¹⁵ See that any return not evil to any: but always pursue good to one another, and to all. ¹⁶ Rejoice always. ¹⁷ Pray continually. ¹⁸ In every thing return thanks: for this the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. ¹⁹ Quench not the Spirit. ²⁰ Set not prophecies at nought. ²¹ Try all things; hold the good. ²² Keep away from all appearance of evil. ²³ And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Faithful he calling you, who also will do. ²⁵ Brethren, pray for us. ²⁶ Greet all the brethren in a holy kiss. ²⁷ I bind you by oath, for the epistle to be read to all the holy brethren. ²⁸ The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you. Amen.

2 Thessalonians

¹ ¹ paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to 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 the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another; ⁴ So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure: ⁵ (A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: ⁶ Even though just with God to return pressure to them pressing you; ⁷ And to you being pressed a release with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power, ⁸ In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ: ⁹ Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; ¹⁰ When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day. ¹¹ For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power: ¹² So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. ² ¹ And we ask you, brethren, concerning the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our assembling together to him, ² For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near. ³ Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ⁴ Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. ⁵ Remember ye not, that, yet being with you, I spake these to you ⁶ And now ye know the withholding for him to be revealed in his time. ⁷ For the mystery of iniquity is already energetic: only he withholding, even till he be out of the midst. ⁸ And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival: ⁹ Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved. ¹¹ And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood: ¹² That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity. ¹³ And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth: ¹⁴ To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle. ¹⁶ And our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, also our Father, having loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope in grace, ¹⁷ Comfort your hearts, and support you in every good word and work. ³ ¹ As to the rest, pray, brethren, for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be honoured, as also with you: ² And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all. ³ But the Lord is faithful, who supports you, and will watch from the evil. ⁴ And we have had confidence in the Lord for you, that what we announce to you, and ye do and will do. ⁵ And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. ⁶ And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us. ⁷ For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you; ⁸ Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you: ⁹ Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us. ¹⁰ For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat. ¹¹ For we hear some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but occupied unprofitably. ¹² And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread. ¹³ And ye, brethren, lose not courage doing good. ¹⁴ And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change. ¹⁵ And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother. ¹⁶ And the Lord of peace himself give to you peace for all in every manner. The Lord with you all. ¹⁷ The greeting of Paul with my hand, which is the sign in every epistle: so I write. ¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

1 Timothy

¹ ¹ Paul, the sent of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope; ² To Timothy, genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord. ³ As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine, ⁴ Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith: ⁵ (And the end of the proclamation is love out of a pure heart, and a good consciousness, and unfeigned faith: ⁶ Which some having missed turned away to vain discourse ⁷ Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured. ⁸ And we know the law good, if any use it lawfully; ⁹ Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers, ¹⁰ For fornicators, unchaste, man-stealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine; ¹¹ According to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted. ¹² And I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, having strengthened me, for he deemed me faithful, having set me in the service; ¹³ Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord superabounded with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance, for Christ Jesus came into the world to save the sinful; of whom I am first. ¹⁶ But for this was I commiserated, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a model to them about to believe on him to eternal life. ¹⁷ And to the King of times, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, honour and glory for the times of times. Amen.) ¹⁸ This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare; ¹⁹ Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck: ²⁰ Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme. ² ¹ I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men; ² For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity. ³ For this good and acceptable before our Saviour God; ⁴ Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus; ⁶ Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time. ⁷ For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth. ⁸ I will therefore men shall pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without anger and reasoning. ⁹ And likewise the women in well-arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing; ¹⁰ But (what become women professing religious worship) with good works. ¹¹ Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection. ¹² And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care. ¹³ For Adam was first formed, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, was in the transgression. ¹⁵ And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion. ³ ¹ Faithful the word, If any strive for superintendence, he eagerly desires a good work. ² Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction; ³ Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice; ⁴ Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity; ⁵ (And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) ⁶ Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser. ⁷ And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser. ⁸ Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain; ⁹ Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness. ¹⁰ And let these also first be tried; then let them perform the office of footman, being blameless. ¹¹ Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses. ¹³ For they having served well, acquire to themselves a good step, and much freedom of speech in the faith which in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ These I write to thee, hoping to come to thee quickly: ¹⁵ And if I delay, that thou shouldest know how thou must be occupied in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. ¹⁶ And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory. ⁴ ¹ And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits; ² In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness; ³ Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth. ⁴ For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks: ⁵ For it is consecrated by the word of God and entreaty. ⁶ These having laid down to the brethren, thou shalt be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of faith and good doctrine, which thou hast closely followed. ⁷ And profane and old women's fictions reject, and exercise thyself in devotion. ⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be. ⁹ Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance. ¹⁰ For, for this also we are wearied and reproached, that we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, chiefly of the faithful. ¹¹ Proclaim and teach these things. ¹² Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Till I come, hold to reading loud, to entreaty, to doctrine. ¹⁴ Neglect not the power which in thee, which was given thee by the gift of prophecy, with the putting on of hands of the council of elders. ¹⁵ Bestow diligent care upon these things; be in them; that thy progress may be manifest in all things. ¹⁶ Take heed to thyself, and to the doctrine; remain in them: for doing this, and thou shalt save thyself, and them hearing thee. ⁵ ¹ An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren; ² The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. ³ Honour widows, truly widows. ⁴ And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God. ⁵ And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day. ⁶ And she living luxuriously is dead, living. ⁷ And these things proclaim, that they might be irreprehensible. ⁸ And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving. ⁹ Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man, ¹⁰ Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work. ¹¹ And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry: ¹² Having judgment, for they put away the first faith. ¹³ And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming. ¹⁴ I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach. ¹⁵ For already have some turned aside after Satan. ¹⁶ If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows. ¹⁷ Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine. ¹⁸ For the writing says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox grinding. And, The laborer worthy of his hire. ¹⁹ Against an elder receive not an accusation from without, except from two or three witnesses. ²⁰ Them having sinned rebuke before all, that the rest also have fear. ²¹ I call to witness before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that thou watch these things without preference, doing nothing by bending. ²² Put hands swiftly upon none, nor participate in others' sins: keep thyself pure. ²³ Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses. ²⁴ Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment; and also to some they follow in the train. ²⁵ Likewise also the good works of some are manifest; and having these otherwise, it cannot be hid. ⁶ ¹ Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed. ² And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech. ³ If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion; ⁴ He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures, ⁵ Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such. ⁶ But devotion with contentment is great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out. ⁸ And having sustenance and covering, with these let us be contented. ⁹ And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition. ¹⁰ For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains. ¹¹ And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness. ¹² Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses. ¹³ I beseech thee before God, making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate the good confession; ¹⁴ For thee to keep the command spotless, irreprehensible, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁵ Which the blessed and only sovereign shall show in his own times, the King of those reigning, and Lord of those ruling; ¹⁶ Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen. ¹⁷ To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit; ¹⁸ To do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal, qualified for participation; ¹⁹ Treasuring up to themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold upon eternal life. ²⁰ O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name: ²¹ Which some proclaiming have missed their aim concerning the faith. Grace with thee. Amen.