Ephesians -1 Timothy Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the holy-ones who are in Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

MLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the holy-ones who are in Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus: ² grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴ just-as he chose us in him before the conception of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished in his sight in love. ⁵ Having predetermined us to the sonship through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the delight of his will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of his favor, in which he has favored us in the beloved, ⁷ in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace. ⁸ The grace which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, ⁹ having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his delight which he purposed in him, ¹⁰ to a stewardship of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth. ¹¹ In him in whom, we were also made an inheritance, having been predetermined according to the purpose of the one who is working all things after the plan of his will. ¹² That we should be for the praise of his glory, we who have hoped before in the Christ, ¹³ in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your salvation, in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ which is a down-payment of our inheritance, to the redemption of the ownership of God to the praise of his glory.
¹⁵ Because of this, I, also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you and the love which you have toward all the holy-ones, ¹⁶ am not ceasing giving-thanks on your behalf, making a remembrance of you in my prayers; ¹⁷ in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the holy-ones, ¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his strength, ²⁰ which he worked in the Christ, having raised him up from the dead and seated him by his right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is being named, not only in this age, but also in the future age. \ulnone\nosupersub ²² And he subjected all things under his feet and gave him to be head above all things to the congregation of believers, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all in all.
² ¹ Even you were dead in your trespasses and sins, ² in which you previously walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit which now is working in the sons of disobedience; ³ among whom we also all conducted ourselves previously in the lusts of our flesh, practicing the wills of the flesh and of the mind and we were children of wrath by nature, even as the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his much love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, he made us alive together with the Christ; you are saved in his grace. ⁶ And God raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus; ⁷ in order that in the coming ages, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For you are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you; ⁹ not from works, in order that not anyone should boast. ¹⁰ For we are his product, created in Christ Jesus toward good works, in which God prepared beforehand in order that we should walk in them.
¹¹ Hence remember, that previously you, (the Gentiles in the flesh), who are called uncircumcision by what is called circumcision, made by hands in the flesh; ¹² that you were separate from Christ at the time, having been alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and were godless in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who were previously from afar have become near to him in the blood of the Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made us both one and tore-down the middle wall of the fence, ¹⁵ having done-away-with the hostility in his flesh, which is the Law of commandments in decrees; in order that he might create in himself the two into one new man, thus making peace; ¹⁶ and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility in himself. ¹⁷ And when he came, he proclaimed the good-news of peace to you who were from afar and peace to those who were near; ¹⁸ because through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ Therefore consequently, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the holy-ones and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone; ²¹ in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.
³ ¹ Because of this, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, ² if actually you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me for you; ³ that he made known the mystery to me according to revelation, just-as I wrote before in few words, ⁴ to which, you are able, by reading it, to perceive my understanding in the mystery of the Christ; ⁵ which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations, as it now was revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit. ⁶ The mystery is that the Gentiles are to be joint heirs and a joint body and joint partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news, ⁷ of which I became a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. ⁸ This grace was given to me the least of all the holy-ones, to proclaim the good-news of the untraceable riches of Christ among the Gentiles; ⁹ and to enlighten all with what the stewardship of the mystery is, of which has been hidden from the ages, in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; ¹⁰ in order that now the multifaceted wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places through the congregation of believers. \ulnone\nosupersub ¹¹ This was according to the everlasting purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord; ¹² in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through his faith. ¹³ Hence I am asking you not to be depressed at my afflictions on your behalf, which are your glory.
¹⁴ Because of this, I am bowing my knees to the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ from whom every family in the heavens and upon the earth is named, ¹⁶ in order that he may give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be powerful with his power, through his Spirit in the inward man; ¹⁷ for the Christ to dwell in your hearts through the faith, ¹⁸ having been rooted and having been founded in love, in order that you may have strength to grab, together with all the holy-ones, of what is the width and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.
²⁰ Now to the one who is able to do, exceptionally beyond all things, what we are asking or are perceiving, according to the power which is working in us, ²¹ the glory is to him in the congregation in Christ Jesus to all generations forevermore. Amen.
⁴ ¹ Therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, am encouraging you to walk worthily of the calling in which you were called, ² with all humility and meekness, with patience tolerating one another in love. ³ Be diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just-as you were also called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one immersion, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all.
⁷ Now the grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the gift of the Christ. ⁸ Hence he says, ‘When he ascended onto high, he captured captivity and gave presents to men.’ ⁹ Now this saying, He ascended, (what is it saying?) except that he also came down into the downward parts of the earth first? ¹⁰ He who came down is also the same as he who ascended up above all the heavens, in order that he might fill all things.
¹¹ And he gave some to be : the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers ¹² for the equipping of the holy-ones, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of the Christ, ¹³ till we all might achieve to the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ, ¹⁴ in order that we may no longer be infants, bobbing on the waves and being carried around in every wind of teaching, in the trickery of men, in craftiness, toward the schemes of error. ¹⁵ But telling the truth in love, that we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, the Christ; ¹⁶ from whom all the body is fitly framed and knitted together, through every supplying joint, according to the working in measure of each part, which is making the growth of the body to the building up of itself in love.
¹⁷ Therefore I am saying and testifying this in the Lord: you are to walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles are also walking, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ having been darkened in their mind, having been alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is in them, because of the hardening of their heart, ¹⁹ who are apathetic, gave themselves up to unbridled-lusts, for the working of all uncleanness in greed.
²⁰ But you did not so learn the Christ; ²¹ if you actually heard him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus; ²² to place away from yourselves the old man, according to your former conduct, the one who is corrupted according to the lusts of deception; ²³ and to be young again in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to have clothed yourselves with the new man, who was created according to God, in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
²⁵ Hence, placing all the lying away from yourselves, speak, each one the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another. ²⁶ ‘Be angry and do not sin.’Do not let the sun set upon your anger, ²⁷ nor give a chance to the devil. ²⁸ Let the one who steals, steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working at what is the good thing with his hands, in order that he may have something to give to the one who has need. ²⁹ Do not let any rotten speech travel from your mouth. But if something is good for the building up of a need, do this in order that it may give a favor to those who are hearing. ³⁰ And do not make the Holy Spirit of God sorrowful, in whom you were sealed to the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness and fury and anger and outcrying and blasphemy, together with all malice, be taken away from you; ³² and become kind to one another, affectionate, forgiving others in yourselves, just-as God also forgave us in Christ.
⁵ ¹ Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children, ² and walk in love, just-as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up on our behalf as an offering and a sacrifice to God for an aroma of a sweet-fragrance.
³ But do not let fornication and all uncleanness or greed even be named among you, as is suitable to holy-ones; ⁴ and do not let obscenity, and foolish-talk or petty jesting, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Therefore do not become joint partakers with them. ⁸ For you were previously in darkness, but now you^\'b0 are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), ¹⁰ testing what is well pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ And have no fellowship together with the unfruitful works of darkness, but also rather reprove them; ¹² for it is shameful even to speak of the things happening by them covertly. ¹³ But being reproved, all things are manifested by the light; for everything which is manifested is light. ¹⁴ Hence he says, Arise, you who are sleeping and rise up from the dead and the Christ will appear upon you.
¹⁵ Therefore beware, how accurately you are walking, not as unwise, but as wise; ¹⁶ buying up the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Because of this, do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸ And do not be drunken with wine, in which there is riotousness, but be filled in the Spirit; ¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing-praise in your heart to the Lord; ²⁰ giving-thanks always on behalf of all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God and Father; ²¹ being subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
²² The wives be subject 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 congregation of believers, he is the savior of the body. ²⁴ But just-like the congregation is subject to the Christ, so let the wives also be subject to their own husbands in all things.
²⁵ The husbands, love^*\'b0 your own wives, just-as the Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up on her behalf; ²⁶ in order that he might make her holy, having cleansed her in the full-washing of the water in the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present her to himself, the glorious congregation, not having stain or wrinkle or any such things, but in order that she should be holy and unblemished. ²⁸ So the husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but is nourishing and cherishing it, just-as the Lord also does the congregation of believers; ³⁰ because we are members of his body, out of his flesh and out of his bones. ³¹ Because of this, a man will be leaving his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. ³² This mystery is great, but I am speaking in regard to Christ and in regard to the congregation of believers. ³³ However to you also, let each, one to one, love his own wife like himself, and let the wife see that she should fear her husband.
⁶ ¹ The children, obey^*\'b0 your parents in the Lord; for this is righteous. ² Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment in the promise), ³ in order that it may become well with you, and you may be upon the earth a long time. ⁴ And the fathers, do not rouse your children to anger, but rear them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
⁵ The bondservants, be obedient to your lords according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in clarity of your heart, as to the Christ; ⁶ not according to eye-service, like men-pleasers, but like bondservants of the Christ, practicing the will of God from your soul; ⁷ serving with benevolence to the Lord and not to men. ⁸ Knowing that whatever good thing each one practices, he will be getting this from the Lord, whether bondservant or free man. ⁹ And the lords, do the same things toward them and be lax with the threatening; knowing that your own Lord is also in the heavens and there is no favoritism from him.
¹⁰ Furthermore, my brethren, be empowered in the Lord and in the dominion of his strength. ¹¹ Clothe yourselves with the full-armor of God, that you may be able to stand up to the schemes of the devil. ¹² Because the wrestling in us is not with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world dominions of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual ones of wickedness in the heavenly places. \ulnone\nosupersub ¹³ Because of this, take up the full-armor of God, in order that you may be able to stand against the devil in the evil day, and to stand straight, having worked against all things. ¹⁴ Therefore stand, having girded your loins in truth and having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having tied the feet with the readiness of the good-news of peace. ¹⁶ Upon all these things, when you have taken up the shield of the faith, in which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one; \ulnone\nosupersub ¹⁷ also able to accept the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying in all seasons in the Spirit and watching in this same thing in all perseverance and supplication concerning all the holy-ones. ¹⁹ And pray on my behalf, in order that the word may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news in boldness, ²⁰ on behalf of which, I am an ambassador in a chain; in order that I should speak boldly in it, as it is essential for me to speak.
²¹ But in order that you may also know the things in regard to me, what I am doing; I will make known to you all things. Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, ²² whom I sent to you for this same thing, in order that you might know the things concerning us, and in order that he might encourage your hearts.
²³ Peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Grace is with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.

Philippians

¹ ¹ Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy-ones in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons : ² grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
³ I am giving-thanks to my God upon every remembrance of you, ⁴ always in my every supplication on behalf of all of you, making the supplication with joy, ⁵ on your fellowship in the good-news from the first day till now. ⁶ I have confidence of this same thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will be completing it till the day of Jesus Christ; ⁷ just-as it is a righteous thing for me to be mindful of this on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good-news, all of you being joint partners with me of the grace. ⁸ For God is my witness, how I am longing-for all of you in the affections of Christ Jesus. ⁹ And I am praying for this: in order that your love may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all comprehension; ¹⁰ that you may approve the things which are carrying more-value; in order that you may be sincere and guilt-free in the day of Christ; ¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
¹² Now brethren, I am planning for you to know, that the things against me have come rather for the progress of the good-news; ¹³ so-that my bonds became apparent in Christ in the whole palace guard and to all the rest; ¹⁴ and that most of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence because of my bonds, are even-more daring to speak fearlessly the word of God. ¹⁵ Some indeed are preaching the Christ even because of envy and strife, but some also through their delight. ¹⁶ Those are indeed proclaiming the Christ out of selfish ambition, not purely, assuming to bring affliction to my bonds. ¹⁷ But the latter ones do it out of love, knowing that I am destined for the defense of the good-news. ¹⁸ For what then? Except that in every manner, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and I am rejoicing in this, but also, I will be rejoicing again. ¹⁹ For I know that this will be transpiring for my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will be shamed in nothing, but as always, now Christ will also be magnified in my body in all boldness, whether through life or through death. ²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But if to live in the flesh–this is the fruit of work to me, and what will I select for myself? I do not know. ²³ But I am troubled from the two ends, having the desire, that I should vacate and be together with Christ, but it is much better rather ²⁴ now to remain in the flesh is necessary because of you. ²⁵ And having confidence of this, I know that I will remain, and I will be abiding together with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith; ²⁶ in order that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me, through my presence with you again. ²⁷ Only behave-as citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ; in order that, whether I come and see you, or am absent, I may hear about the things concerning you, that you are standing-firm in one spirit, with one soul contending together with us in the faith of the good-news. ²⁸ And being terrified in nothing by those who lay in opposition to you; which to them indeed is an example of destruction, but to you is an example of salvation and this thing is from God, ²⁹ because it was granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf; ³⁰ having the same struggle such-as you saw in me, and now are hearing to be in me.
² ¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies, ² fulfill my joy, in order that you may be mindful of the same thing, having the same love, fellowship in spirit, being mindful of the one thing, ³ (nothing according to selfish ambition or through empty conceit, but in humility): deeming one another superior to yourselves; ⁴ each one, do not note the things of yourselves, but each one note also the things of others. ⁵ For let this mindset be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶ who, existing in the form of God, did not deem it a seizure to be equal to God, ⁷ but emptied himself, having taken the form of a bondservant, having become in the likeness of men; ⁸ and having been found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient as far as death, and even death from a cross. ⁹ Hence, God also highly exalted him, and granted to him the name which is above every name; ¹⁰ in order that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus, those from the heavenly and earthly and subterranean places, ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
¹² So-then my beloved, just-as you have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³ For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work, on behalf of his delight. ¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and questionings, ¹⁵ in order that you might become blameless and harmless children of God, flawless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as illuminations in the world. ¹⁶ Keep holding onto the word of life, for a boast to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labored in vain. ¹⁷ But even if I am a drink-offering upon the sacrifice and ministry of your faith, I am rejoicing, and even rejoicing together with you all. ¹⁸ Now you also, rejoice and rejoice together with me in the same thing.
¹⁹ Now I am hoping in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you shortly, in order that I may also be in good spirits when I know about the things concerning you. ²⁰ For I have no one equal in spirit, who will be genuinely anxious about the things concerning you. ²¹ For they are all seeking their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. ²² But you know the trial of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served together with me for the good-news. ²³ Therefore, I am indeed hoping to send this one promptly, as for whenever I look away from the things concerning me, ²⁴ but I have confidence in the Lord that I myself will also be coming shortly.
²⁵ But I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your ambassador and minister to my need; ²⁶ since he was longing-for you all, and was disheartened because you had heard that he was sick. ²⁷ For indeed he was sick–close to death. But God showed-mercy on him, now not him only, but also me, in order that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ Therefore, I have sent him more diligently, in order that when you see him again, you should rejoice and that I may be sorrow-free. ²⁹ Therefore accept him in the Lord with all joy, and hold those who are such as admired; ³⁰ because he drew near almost as far as death, because of the work of the Christ, having disregarded his life in order that he might fill the lack in your ministry toward me.
³ ¹ Furthermore, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Indeed, it is not tedious for me to write the same things to you, but a secure thing for you. ² Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the mutilation. ³ For we are the circumcision, who are giving-divine service in the spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; ⁴ although I myself might have confidence in the flesh; if some other is thinking to have confidence in the flesh, I yet even more. ⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew out of Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ according to zeal, I was persecuting the congregation of believers; according to the righteousness in the law, I became blameless. ⁷ But what things were gains for me, I have deemed these a forfeiture because of the Christ. ⁸ But therefore, I am also deeming all things indeed to be a forfeiture because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom, I forfeited all things, and am deeming them to be but trash, in order that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, which is from the law, but which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God on the faith, ¹⁰ that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being transformed to his death; ¹¹ if somehow I may achieve to the resurrection from the dead. ¹² Not that I have already received it or have already been completed in this, but I am pursuing it, if I might grab that for which I was also grabbed by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not reason to have grabbed it, but one thing I indeed do, forgetting the things which are behind me and stretching forth to the things which are before me. ¹⁴ I am pursuing according to the goal line toward the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore, as many as are mature, we should be mindful of this, and if you are mindful of anyone differently, God will also be revealing this to you; ¹⁶ however in what we have attained, we are to march by the same standard, to be mindful of the same things.
¹⁷ Brethren, become joint imitators of me, and note those who are walking so, just-as you have us as an example. ¹⁸ For many are walking, (of whom I was speaking to you often about them; now I am also telling you, weeping), who are the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and whose glory is in their shame, who are mindful of earthly things. ²⁰ For our citizenship exists in the heavens; out of which we are also waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹ He will fashion the body of our humbleness, that it may become transformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of which he is able to even subject all things to himself.
⁴ ¹ So-then my brethren, beloved and longed-for, my joy and crown, so stand-firm in the Lord, my beloved.
² I am encouraging Euodia, and I am encouraging Syntyche, both to be mindful of the same thing in the Lord. ³ Yes, I am also requesting you, genuine colleague, help these women, who contended together with me in the good-news, also with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, Rejoice. ⁵ Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is near. ⁶ Be anxious in nothing, but in everything, let your requests be made known to God by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. ⁷ And the peace of God, which is superior to all perception, will be guarding your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
⁸ Furthermore brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are honorable, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as have good-repute; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, reason on these things. ⁹ The things which you both learned and received and heard and saw in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
¹⁰ But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at last, you have bloomed again the desire to be mindful of things on my behalf; in which, you were even mindful of me, but you had no opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I am speaking according to my lack of things; for I have learned what things I am to be content. ¹² I know how to be also humbled; I also know how to also abound. I have been initiated in everything, and in all things, both to be fed and to be hungry, both to abound and to lack. ¹³ I am strong in all things in the Christ, who is empowering me.
¹⁴ However you did well, having shared together with my affliction. ¹⁵ Now you also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the good-news, when I went out from Macedonia, no congregation shared with me in the word of the giving and receiving, except you only. ¹⁶ Because even in Thessalonica, you sent once and then twice to my need. ¹⁷ Not that I am seeking after the present, but I am seeking after the fruit that increases to your account. ¹⁸ But I have all things, and I am abounding. I have been filled, having accepted from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, an aroma of a sweet-fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ Now my God will be filling every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ Now to our God and Father is the glory forevermore. Amen.
²¹ Greet every holy-one in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are together with me greet you. ²² All the holy-ones greet you, especially those who are from Caesar’s household.
²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with all of you. Amen.

Colossians

¹ ¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, ² to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
³ We are giving-thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying concerning you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the holy-ones, ⁵ because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard beforehand in the word of the truth of the good-news. ⁶ This good-news which is present for you; just-as it also is in all the world. And is bearing-fruit and growing, just-as it also does in you, from the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth; ⁷ just-as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondservant, who is a faithful servant of the Christ on your behalf, ⁸ who also indicated to us your love in the Spirit. ⁹ Because of this, we also do not cease praying and asking on your behalf from the day we heard it, in order that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and intelligence, ¹⁰ for you to walk worthy of the Lord for pleasing him in everything, bearing-fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God; ¹¹ being empowered in all power, according to the dominion of his glory, for all endurance and patience with joy, ¹² giving-thanks to the Father, who made us sufficient for the part of the inheritance of the holy-ones in the light. ¹³ He rescued us out of the authority of darkness and transplanted us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; ¹⁴ in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins, ¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; ¹⁶ because all things were created by him, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principalities or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷ And he is before all things and all things are standing in him. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the congregation of believers; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that he might become foremost in all things. ¹⁹ Because it delighted God that all the fullness is to dwell in him; ²⁰ and through him to reconcile all things to himself, whether things upon the earth or things upon the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him. ²¹ And you were previously alienated and were enemies in mind, in evil works, but yet he reconciled you\super\'b0 ²² in the body of his flesh through his death, to present you holy and unblemished and irreproachable in his sight; ²³ if you actually are remaining in the faith, having been founded and grounded and not being moved away from the hope of the good-news which you heard, which was preached in all creation which is under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant.
²⁴ Now I am rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf and I am filling up in my flesh, the things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ on behalf of his body, which is the congregation of believers; ²⁵ of which I became a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, ²⁶ the mystery that has been hidden away from the ages and away from the generations, but now it has been manifested to his holy-ones. ²⁷ To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory. ²⁸ The Christ whom we are proclaiming, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we should present every man complete in Christ Jesus; ²⁹ for which I also labor, struggling according to his working, which works in power in me.
² ¹ For I wish you to know how-vast a struggle I have concerning you and those in Laodicea and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; ² in order that their hearts might be encouraged, having been knitted together in love and in all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God and Father and of the Christ, ³ in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
⁴ But I am saying all of this, in order that not anyone may delude you in persuasive speech. ⁵ For even if I am absent in the flesh, but yet I am together with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
⁶ Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, ⁷ having been rooted and being built up in him and being confirmed in the faith, just-as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
⁸ Beware, that there will not be anyone there who is leading you away as his prey through philosophy and vain deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the fundamental principles of the world, and not according to Christ, ⁹ because all the fullness of the Deity is dwelling in him bodily. ¹⁰ And you are fulfilled in him, who is the head of all principality and authority; ¹¹ in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the stripping off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ, ¹² having been buried together with him in the immersion, in which you were also raised up together with him through the faith from the working of God, who raised him up from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses; ¹⁴ having wiped-away the handwriting in the decrees that were against us, which were an adversary to us. He has also taken these out of the midst of us, having nailed it to the cross, ¹⁵ having stripped off the principalities and the authorities, he publicly made a show of them, triumphing over them in it.
¹⁶ Therefore do not let anyone judge you in food, or in drink, or in this respect of a feast day, or a new month, or a Sabbaths; ¹⁷ which are a shadow of the future things, but the body is Christ’s. ¹⁸ Let no one arbitrate against you, willing it so in your humility and in a religion of the messengers; stepping you^\'b0 further into the things which he has not seen, being vainly arrogant by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and not holding-fast to the head, from whom all the body is being supplied and knitted together through the joints and ligaments, which is growing with the growth of God.
²⁰ If you died together with Christ away from the fundamental principles of the world, why, (as though living in the world), are you submissive to its decrees: ²¹ do not touch; do not taste; do not handle; ²² (which things in the using are all leading to corruption), according to the commandments and teachings of men? ²³ Which things indeed in a man-made religion have a reason which comes from man’s wisdom and humility and unsparing cruelty of the body, but are not in any value toward the indulgence of the flesh. ³ ¹ Therefore, if you were raised up together with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. ² Be mindful of the things which are above, not the things which are upon the earth. ³ For you died and the life you have, has been hidden together with the Christ in God. ⁴ Whenever the Christ, who is the life of us, is manifested, then you will also be manifested together with him in glory.
⁵ Therefore mortify your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of which things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience; ⁷ among whom you also previously walked, when you were living in these things. ⁸ But also now, place all these things away from yourselves: anger, fury, malice, blasphemy, obscene speech from your mouth.
⁹ Do not lie to one another; since you have stripped off the old man together with his practices, ¹⁰ and have clothed yourselves with the new man, who is being renewed to the full knowledge according to the image of the one who created him; ¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free man, but Christ is all things and in all things.
¹² Therefore as chosen ones of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, ¹³ tolerating one another and forgiving others in yourselves. If anyone has a complaint toward anyone; just-as the Christ forgave you, so you also forgive others. ¹⁴ But over all these things be clothed with the love, which is the bond of maturity. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God arbitrate in your hearts, for which you were also called in one body, and become thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing in gratitude in your heart to the Lord. ¹⁷ And everything, anything, whatever you do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving-thanks to the God and Father through him.
¹⁸ The wives: be subject to your own husbands, as is proper in the Lord.
¹⁹ The husbands: love^*\'b0 the wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
²⁰ The children: obey^*\'b0 the parents according to all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
²¹ The fathers: do not aggravate your children, in order that they may not be discouraged.
²² The bondservants: be obedient according to all things, those who are your lords according to the flesh; not in eye-services, like men-pleasers, but in clarity of heart, fearing God.
²³ And everything, anything whatever you do, work from your soul, as you would to the Lord and not as to men; ²⁴ knowing that you will be receiving from the Lord the payment of the inheritance; for you are serving the Lord Christ. ²⁵ But he who does wrong will get back what he did wrong and there is no favoritism with God.
⁴ ¹ The lords: provide the just and the equal thing s to your bondservants; knowing that you also have a Lord in the heavens.
² Persevere in your prayer, watching in it in thanksgiving; ³ praying at the same time concerning us also, in order that God may open a door of the word to us, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound; ⁴ in order that I may manifest it, as it is essential for me to speak. ⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, buying up the time. ⁶ Let your speech always be in gratitude, having been seasoned in salt, that you may know how it is essential for you to answer each one.
⁷ Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant, and my fellow bondservant in the Lord will make all things known to you from me; ⁸ whom I have sent to you for this same thing, in order that he might know about the things concerning you and in order that he may comfort your hearts; ⁹ together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one from you. They will be making all things known to you which are done here.
¹⁰ Aristarchus my fellow captive greets you, and Mark, the cousin to Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, accept him), ¹¹ and Jesus who is called Justus, who is from the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, those who became a comfort to me. ¹² Epaphras, a bondservant of Christ, the one from you, greets you. He is always fighting on your behalf in his prayers, in order that you might stand complete and having been fulfilled in all the will of God. ¹³ For I am testifying of him, that he has much zeal on your behalf, and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis. ¹⁴ Luke, the beloved physician and Demas greet you. ¹⁵ Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the congregation which is in his house.
¹⁶ And whenever this letter has been read before you, do forward it, in order that it should also be read in the congregation of the Laodiceans, and in order that you also should read the letter from Laodicea. ¹⁷ And say to Archippus, Beware that the service which you have received in the Lord, that you should fulfill it.
¹⁸ The greeting from me, Paul, with my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace is with you. Amen.

1 Thessalonians

¹ ¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
² We are always giving-thanks to God concerning all of you, making a remembrance of you in our prayers; ³ constantly remembering your work of the faith, and labor of love, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, ⁴ knowing beloved brethren your choice by God. ⁵ You know because our good-news did not happened to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much full assurance; just-as you know what manner of men we became among you, because of you. ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit; ⁷ so-that you became examples to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For the word of the Lord has echoed forth from you, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so-that we do not need to say anything. ⁹ For they themselves are reporting concerning us, what sort of entrance we had toward you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a living and true God, ¹⁰ and to await his Son Jesus from the heavens, whom he raised up from the dead; who rescues us from the coming wrath.
² ¹ For brethren, you yourselves know our entrance to you, that it has not become empty. ² But having suffered before, and having been abused in Philippi, just-as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God, even in our large struggle.
³ For our encouragement is not from deceit, nor from uncleanness, nor in treachery. ⁴ But just-as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, so we are speaking; not as pleasing men, but it is God who tests our hearts. ⁵ For just-as you know, (God being witness), we neither previously came in words of flattery, nor in a pretext of greed, ⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, while being able to be a burden to you as apostles of Christ. ⁷ But we became mild in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children. ⁸ So having kindly-feelings of you, we were delighted to have given to you not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.
⁹ For brethren, you remember our labor and hardship. For we were working night and day, that we might not burden any of you while we preached to you the good-news of God. ¹⁰ You and God are witnesses, as we became holy and righteous and blameless toward you who believe. ¹¹ Just-as you know, as we became with each one of you, like a father with his own children, encouraging you and consoling you\super\'b0 ¹² and testifying, that you should walk worthy of God, who is calling you into his own kingdom and glory.
¹³ And we also are constantly giving-thanks to God because of this, because, when you accepted the word of God from our report, you accepted it not as the word of men, but just-as it truly is, the word of God, which is also working in you who believe. ¹⁴ For brethren, you became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just-as they did also by the Jews. ¹⁵ The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and banished us, and were not pleasing to God, and are adverse to all men; ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved; that they should always fill up their sins, but the wrath has arrived-unexpectedly upon them–to the end.
¹⁷ But brethren, having been orphaned away from you for the time of an hour, in face but not in heart, we were even-more diligent to see your face in much desire. ¹⁸ Hence, we wished to come to you, indeed, I, Paul, even once and then twice, and yet the Adversary hindered us. ¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting, or is it not also you, which is before our Lord Jesus Christ at his presence? ²⁰ For you are our glory and our joy.
³ ¹ Hence, no longer forbearing it, we were delighted to be left behind in Athens alone. ² And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant and our fellow worker in the good-news of the Christ, that he might establish you and to encourage you concerning your faith; ³ that no one be shook up in these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are destined for this thing. ⁴ For even when we were with you, we were telling you beforehand that we are about to be afflicted; just-as it also happened and you know. ⁵ Because of this, no longer forbearing it, I also sent Timothy, that I might know your faith, lest the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might become vain. ⁶ But now, when Timothy came to us from you, and proclaimed to us good-news about your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, just-as we also long to see you. ⁷ Brethren, because of this, we were comforted on the basis of you in all our affliction and calamity through your faith, ⁸ because now we live, if you stand-firm in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you? Over all the joy in which we are rejoicing before our God is because of you, ¹⁰ exceptionally beseeching God night and day, that we may see your face and may mend the things lacking of your faith.
¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ, steer our way toward you. ¹² And may the Lord increase in you and this increase to abound in love toward one another and toward all men, just-as we also do toward you; ¹³ that he might establish your hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his holy-ones.
⁴ ¹ Therefore furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you in the Lord Jesus, just-as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, in order that you might abound even more. ² For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your holiness, for you to abstain from fornication; ⁴ for each of you to know how to procure his own vessel in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in the passion of lust, just-as also the Gentiles who do not know God, ⁶ and not to go beyond limits and takes-advantage of his brother in the matter, because the Lord is an avenger concerning all these things, just-as we have also spoken to you beforehand and thoroughly testified. ⁷ For God did not call us in uncleanness, but in holiness. ⁸ Therefore, the one who is rejecting this is not rejecting man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
⁹ Now concerning brotherly-love, you have no need for someone to write to you; for you yourselves are taught by God, that you should love one another; ¹⁰ for you are also practicing it toward all the brethren who are in the whole of Macedonia. But brethren, we encourage you, that you abound even more, ¹¹ and that you make it your aim to be living quiet lives and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands (just-as we commanded you), ¹² in order that you may walk decently toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

¹³ But brethren, we do not wish you to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen-asleep; in order that you may not be sorrowful like the rest who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up again, so those who have fallen-asleep through Jesus, God will also be bringing together with him. ¹⁵ For this we are saying to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who are left at the presence of the Lord, may never attain heaven before those who have fallen-asleep. ¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will be coming down from heaven, in a commanding yell, in the voice of the archangel and at the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be rising up first; ¹⁷ thereafter we, the living, who are left, will be taken away at the same time together with them in the clouds, to the encounter of the Lord in the air, and so we will always be together with the Lord. ¹⁸ So-then, encourage one another in these words.
⁵ ¹ Now brethren, you have no need for anything to be written to you concerning the times and the seasons. ² For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes like a thief in the night. ³ For whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-destruction stands by them, just-like the travail a woman has in her womb, and they may never flee away from it. ⁴ But brethren, you are not in darkness, in order that the day might overtake you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness; ⁶ Therefore consequently, we should not sleep, like the rest also do, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But we, being of the day, should be sober; having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet-- the hope of salvation. ⁹ Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ who died on our behalf, in order that, whether we should watch or sleep, we should live together with him at the same time. ¹¹ Hence, encourage one another and build up one by one, just-as you are also practicing.
¹² But brethren, we request of you to know those who are laboring among you, and are governing over you, and admonishing you in the Lord; ¹³ and to deem them exceptionally in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. ¹⁴ But brethren, we encourage you : admonish the disorderly, console the fainthearted, hold up the weak, have patience toward all. ¹⁵ See that not anyone repays evil in exchange-for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both toward one another and toward all. ¹⁶ Rejoice always. ¹⁷ Pray constantly. ¹⁸ Give-thanks in everything; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. ¹⁹ Do not quench the Spirit. ²⁰ Do not scorn prophesying. ²¹ Test all things. Hold-onto the good things. ²² Abstain from every form of evil.
²³ Now may the God of peace himself make you entirely holy, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ He is faithful who calls you, who will also do it.
²⁵ Brethren, pray concerning us.
²⁶ Greet all the brethren by a holy kiss. ²⁷ I am imploring you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the holy brethren.
²⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you. Amen.

2 Thessalonians

¹ ¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation 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 Brethren, we always ought to thank God concerning you, just-as it is worthy, because your faith is growing substantially, and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing; ⁴ so-that we ourselves boast in you in the congregations of God, on behalf of your endurance and faith in all your persecutions, and in the afflictions which you are tolerating. ⁵ This is an example of the righteous judgment of God; that you may be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, on behalf of which you are also suffering; ⁶ if indeed it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who are afflicting you; ⁷ and to you who are afflicted with us, a rest at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the messengers of his power, ⁸ giving vengeance in a fire of flame to those who do not know God and to those who are not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹ who will be suffering-punishment, the sentence of everlasting utter-destruction away from the face of the Lord, and away from the glory of his strength, ¹⁰ whenever he may come to be glorified in his holy-ones, and to be marveled at in that day in all those who have believed, (because our testimony to you was believed).
¹¹ For which, we are also always praying concerning you, in order that our God might deem you worthy of your calling, and might fulfill every delight of goodness, and every work of faith in power, ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ might be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
² ¹ Now brethren, we request of you, on behalf of the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering-together to him, ² that you might not be quickly shaken from your mind, nor be alarmed, (either through spirit, or through word, or through letter, as if it came through us), as that the day of the Christ is present. ³ Do not let anyone deceive you in any manner, because that day will not come, if the apostasy does not come first and the man of sin, the son of destruction, should be revealed. ⁴ The one who lays in opposition to us and promotes himself against everyone being called a god or worshiped objects; so-that he sits in the temple of God as a god, showing himself–that he is a god. ⁵ Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I was speaking to you about these things? ⁶ And now you know what is holding him back, that he may be revealed in his own time. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already working; only there is one who is holding it back now, until he should become from the midst of us. ⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will be consuming with the breath of his mouth and will be doing-away-with him by the appearing of his presence; ⁹ even he, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary in every power and in signs and in lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, because they did not accept the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will be sending them a working of error, that they may believe in the lie; ¹² in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth, but were delighted in unrighteousness.
¹³ But we ought to thank God always concerning you brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God himself selected you from the beginning to salvation in holiness of the Spirit and in faith of the truth; ¹⁴ to which he called you through our good-news, for the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Therefore, consequently, brethren, stand-firm and hold-fast the traditions which you were taught, whether through speech or through our letter.
¹⁶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God and Father who loved us and gave us everlasting encouragement and good hope in his grace, ¹⁷ may comfort your hearts and may establish them in all the word and in good work.
³ ¹ Furthermore, brethren, pray concerning us, in order that the word of the Lord may run onward and may be glorified, just-as it is also with you; ² and in order that we may be rescued from the improper and evil men; for the faith is not of all. ³ But the Lord is faithful, who will be establishing you and will be guarding you from the evil one. \ulnone\nosupersub ⁴ Now we have confidence in the Lord on the basis of you, that you are both practicing and will be practicing the things which we command you. ⁵ Now may the Lord steer your hearts into the love of God and into the endurance of the Christ.
⁶ Now brethren, we are commanding you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to withdraw yourselves from every brother who is walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us. ⁷ For you yourselves know how it is essential for you to imitate us. Because we did not act-disorderly among you; ⁸ nor did we eat bread freely from anyone, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, that we might not burden anyone of you; ⁹ not because we did not have the authority, but in order that we might give ourselves as an example to you, that you might imitate us. ¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we were commanding you this, If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat. ¹¹ For we hear there are some who are walking disorderly among you, working at nothing, but are busybodies. ¹² Now we are commanding to such and are encouraging through our Lord Jesus Christ, in order that they work with quietness and should eat their own bread. ¹³ But you brethren, do not be depressed in doing good. ¹⁴ And if anyone is not obeying our word through this letter, mark that man and do not socialize together with him, in order that he may be embarrassed. ¹⁵ And yet do not deem him as an enemy, but admonish him like a brother.
¹⁶ Now the Lord of peace himself may give you peace always in every manner. The Lord is with all of you.
¹⁷ The greeting from me, Paul, I thus am writing with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter. ¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with all of you. Amen.

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1 Timothy

¹ ¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope; ² to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
³ As I encouraged you to remain in Ephesus, when I was traveling into Macedonia, in order that you might command to some not to teach a different teaching, ⁴ nor to take-heed to fables and unending genealogies, which provide more debates, rather than a stewardship of God which is in faith. ⁵ But the end of the command is love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and a non-pretended faith; ⁶ from which some having deviated, turned aside to empty-talking; ⁷ wishing to be teachers of the law, perceiving neither what they are saying, nor the things concerning what they are confidently confirming. ⁸ But we know that the law is good, if anyone uses it lawfully, ⁹ knowing this: that law is not laid down for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for killers of their fathers and killers of their mothers, for murderers, ¹⁰ for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers and if any other thing which lays in opposition to sound teaching; ¹¹ according to the good-news of the glory of the blessed God, to which I was entrusted.
¹² And I have gratitude to the one who empowered me, namely, the Christ, Jesus our Lord, because he deemed me faithful, placing me into his service; ¹³ even though I was a former blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man, but I was shown-mercy, because I did it being ignorant in unbelief; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord overwhelmed me with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost. ¹⁶ But I was shown-mercy because of this, in order that Jesus Christ might show all his patience in me as foremost, for a pattern of those who are afterward about to believe on him for everlasting life. ¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only wise God, is honor and glory forevermore. Amen.
¹⁸ I consign this command to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophesies preceding upon you, in order that you may be warring the good warfare by them; ¹⁹ holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away, are shipwrecked concerning the faith; ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I gave to the Adversary, in order that they might be disciplined not to blaspheme.
² ¹ Therefore I am encouraging first of all that supplications, prayers, petitions, thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, ² on behalf of kings and all who are in superior-stations; in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and honesty. ³ For this is good and acceptable in God our Savior’s sight; ⁴ who wishes all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and one intermediary of God and of men, the man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all; the testimony given in its own times; ⁷ to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle, (I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
⁸ Therefore I will that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and evil reasoning.
⁹ Likewise also, the women to adorn themselves in a respectable array, with modesty and self-discipline; not in hair braids or gold or pearls or costly garments; ¹⁰ but with what is suitable to women professing godliness through good works. ¹¹ Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection.
¹² Now I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to dominate a man, but to be in quietness.
¹³ For Adam was first molded, thereafter Eve; ¹⁴ and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, has become the one in transgression; ¹⁵ but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they remain in faith and love and holiness with self-discipline.

³ ¹ Faithful is the word: if a any man is aspiring to the overseership, he is desiring a good work. ² Therefore, it is essential for the overseer to be: unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, orderly, hospitable, skilled in teaching; ³ not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a money-lover; ⁴ the one who is governing his own house well, having his children in subjection with all honesty; ⁵ (but if anyone does not know how to govern his own house, how will he be caring for the congregation of God?;) ⁶ not a new-convert, (in order that when he is puffed up, he might not fall into the condemnation of the devil). ⁷ But it is also essential for him to have a good testimony from those who are outside the congregation; in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

{‘Unimpeachable,’(below, G423), ‘irreproachable,’(Tit 1, G410), are both in the qualifications of the Lord’s earthly congregation’s leadership, described in various Bible versions and locations within as: elders, bishops, overseers, pastors, shepherds, presbyters; (all terms are always plural in the Bible). These words do not translate well into English. They are simply a description of a person not under an accusation by an enemy or legal system or better as under any kind of accusation, this person is blameless, guiltless and has an impeccable reputation. Another note: ‘children’is plural in Greek.}

⁸ Deacons likewise must be honorable, not double-tongued, not taking-heed to much wine, not covetous; ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a clean conscience. ¹⁰ But let these also first be tested; thereafter let them serve, being irreproachable.
¹¹ Women likewise must be honorable, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.
¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, governing their children and their own houses well. ¹³ For those who have served well are acquiring for themselves a good rank and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
¹⁴ I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you shortly; ¹⁵ but if I am slow, these things are in order that you may know how men ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. ¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness : God was manifested in the flesh, was made righteous in the Spirit, was seen by messengers, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.
⁴ ¹ But the Spirit expressly says, In later times some will be withdrawing from the faith, taking-heed to misleading spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy from the speakers of lies, having been branded in their own conscience; ³ forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the believing and those who have fully known the truth, ⁴ because every created thing of God is good and casting off nothing if it is received with thanksgiving, ⁵ for it is made holy through the word of God and through petition.
⁶ If you suggest these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching in which you have followed closely. ⁷ But renounce the profane and old-wives’fables and exercise yourself to godliness; ⁸ for bodily exercise is profitable for few things, but godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of life the current one and the future one.
⁹ Faithful is the word and worthy of all acceptance. ¹⁰ For we are also laboring and are reproached toward this end, because we have hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of the believing ones. ¹¹ Command and teach these things.
¹² Let no one despise your youth, but become an example of the believing ones : in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come, take-heed to the public-reading, to the encouragement, to the teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift which is in you, which was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. ¹⁵ Meditate on these things; be diligent in them; in order that your progress may be apparent to all. ¹⁶ Take-heed to yourself and to the teaching. Abide in these things; for while practicing this, you will be saving both yourself and those who hear you.
⁵ ¹ Do not berate an elder man, but encourage him like a father; younger-men like brethren; ² elder women like mothers; younger women like sisters, in all purity. ³ Honor widows who are really widows. ⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to be devout toward their own family and to give back reimbursement to their parents; for this is acceptable in God’s sight. ⁵ Now she who really is a widow and has been left alone and has hoped in God and remains in supplications and prayers night and day. ⁶ But she who is self-indulgent has died, while still living. ⁷ Also command these things, in order that they may be unimpeachable. ⁸ But if anyone is not planning-for his own and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
⁹ Do not let a widow be enrolled who is less than sixty years old, having become the wife of one man, ¹⁰ being testified of in good works; if she has reared children, if she was hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the holy-ones’feet, if she has relieved those being afflicted, if she has followed after every good work.
¹¹ But renounce younger widows; for whenever they are promiscuous against the Christ, they wish to marry; ¹² having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith. ¹³ Now at the same time, they also are learning to be idle, strolling the houses, and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not to speak. ¹⁴ Therefore I will the younger widows to marry, to be childbearing, to manage the house, to never give a starting-point to those who lay in opposition to them because of reviling: ¹⁵ for already some have turned aside after the Adversary.
¹⁶ If any believing man or believing woman has relatives who are widows, they should relieve them and do not let the congregation be burdened; in order that it may relieve those who really are widows.
¹⁷ The elders who are governing well, let them be deemed worthy of double honor, especially those who are laboring in the word and in teaching. ¹⁸ For the Scripture says, ‘You will not muzzle a threshing bull.’And, ‘The worker is worthy of his wages.’ ¹⁹ Do not accept an accusation against an elder, unless upon the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁰ Reprove those who are sinning in the sight of all, in order that the rest may also have fear. ²¹ I am thoroughly testifying in sight of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the chosen messengers, in order that you should observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing according to bias. ²² Lay hands on no one quickly, nor share in another’s sins. Keep yourself pure! ²³ No longer be a drinker of water only, but use a small amount of wine because of your stomach and your frequent sicknesses. ²⁴ Some men’s sins are evident, leading them into judgment, but even for some, they are also following after them later. ²⁵ Likewise also, the good works are evident, and those having works contrariwise are not able to be hid.

⁶ ¹ As many as are bondservants under the yoke, let them deem their own masters worthy of all honor, in order that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed. ² But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren, but rather let them serve them, because they are believing and beloved who are being helped by your good work. Teach and encourage these things.
³ If anyone is teaching a different teaching and is not coming near to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the teaching which is according to godliness; ⁴ he has been puffed up, knowing nothing, but being mentally diseased concerning debates and quarrels over words, out of which become: envy, strife, blasphemies, evil suspicions, ⁵ incessant wranglings of men who have been corrupted in the mind and who have been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a method to earnings. Withdraw yourself from such.
⁶ But godliness with contentment is a great method to earnings; ⁷ for we brought nothing into the world, nor it is evident that we are able to carry anything out; ⁸ but we will be content with these things, having nourishment and clothes. ⁹ But those who are planning to be rich are falling into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which are submerging men into utter-destruction and everlasting destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils; of which some aspiring to, have been misled from the faith and they themselves are staked-through by many sorrows.
¹¹ But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue: righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, grab the everlasting life, to which you were called and professed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. ¹³ I am commanding you in God’s sight, who gives-life to all things and of Christ Jesus, who in front of Pontius Pilate testified the good confession; ¹⁴ that you keep the commandment, unstained, unimpeachable, till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Which in its own times, he will show, the Blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who are reigning, and a Lord of those who have lordship over others; ¹⁶ he who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no one from man has seen, nor is able to see: to whom is honor and everlasting dominion. Amen.
¹⁷ Command the rich in this current age, not to be cavalier, nor to have hope on the uncertainty of riches, but have hope in the living God, who is richly providing to us all things toward enjoyment; ¹⁸ also command them to work what is good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in giving, generous, ¹⁹ storing up for themselves a good foundation toward the future, in order that they may grab the everlasting life.
²⁰ O Timothy, guard the deposit consigned to you, turning away from the profane empty-talks and oppositions of the falsely named knowledge; ²¹ which some professing have deviated concerning the faith.
Grace is with you. Amen.

{NOTES: Please read the Preface and other non-bible sections. is our universal footnoting for words contained in the ‘Definitions’section. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. FOR is different from FOR is different from FOR.}