Colossians 4 Cross References - MLV

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.

¹³ You will not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant will not abide with you all night until the morning.

³⁹ And if your brother becomes poor with you and sells himself to you, you will not impose upon him servile labor. ⁴⁰ He will be with you as a hired servant and as a traveler. He will serve with you to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ Then he will go out from you, he and his sons with him and will return to his own family. And he will return to the possession of his fathers. ⁴² For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as bondmen. ⁴³ You will not rule over him with rigor, but will fear your God.

¹² If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you will let him go free from you. ¹³ And when you let him go free from you, you will not let him go empty. ¹⁴ You will furnish him liberally out of your flock and out of your threshing-floor and out of your winepress. As Jehovah your God has blessed you, you will give to him.
¹⁵ And you will remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

¹⁴ You will not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brothers, or of your travelers that are in your land within your gates. ¹⁵ You will give him his hire in his day, neither will the sun go down upon it, for he is poor and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against you to Jehovah and it is sin to you.

⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. Neither is it in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
⁶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. ⁷ Then I consulted with myself and contended with the ranking men and the rulers and said to them, You* exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations and would you* even sell your* brothers and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found not a word.
⁹ Also I said, The thing that you* do is not good. Ought you* not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? ¹⁰ And I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. I beseech you*, let us leave off this usury. ¹¹ Restore, I beseech you*, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you* exact of them.
¹² Then they said, We will restore them and will require nothing of them, so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise. ¹³ Also I shook out my lap and said, So God shake out every man from his house and from his labor, who does not perform this promise, even thus be he shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Truly and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.

¹¹ They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread their winepresses and suffer thirst. ¹² From out of the populous city men groan and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the foolishness.

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

⁸ If you see the oppression of a poor man and the violent robbery of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. Because a man higher than the high is observing and there are higher men than they.

³ Why have we fasted, they say and you do not see? We have afflicted our soul and you take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your* fast you* find pleasure and exact from all your* laborers.

⁵ Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to Jehovah?
⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke and to let the oppressed go free and that you* break every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to deal your bread to a hungry man and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house, when you see a naked man, that you cover him and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
⁸ Then your light will break forth as the morning and your healing will spring forth speedily. And your righteousness will go before you. The glory of Jehovah will be your rearward. ⁹ Then you will call and Jehovah will answer, you will cry and he will say, Here I am. If you take the yoke away from the midst of you, the putting forth of the finger and speaking wickedly,

⁹ that every man should let his man-servant and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free, that none should make bondmen of them, namely, of a Jew his brother.
¹⁰ And all the rulers and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his man-servant and everyone his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondmen of them any more. They obeyed and let them go.
¹¹ But afterwards they turned and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
¹² Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, ¹³ Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your* fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, ¹⁴ At the end of seven years you* will let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you and has served you six years. You will let him go free from you. But your* fathers listened not to me, nor inclined their ear.
¹⁵ And you* were now turned and had done what is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor. And you* had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name.
¹⁶ But you* turned and profaned my name and caused every man his servant and every man his handmaid, whom you* had let go free at their pleasure, to return. And you* brought them into subjection, to be to you* for servants and for handmaids.
¹⁷ Therefore Jehovah says thus: You* have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you* a liberty, says Jehovah–to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine. And I will make you* to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁵ And I will come near to you* to judgment and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against the false swearers and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless and who turn aside the traveler and do not fear me, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁸ But do not be called Rabbi; for only one is your leader, the Christ, and you are all brethren. ⁹ Now do not call anyone your father upon the earth; for only one is your Father, the one in the heavens;

⁴⁸ But if that evil bondservant says in his heart, My lord is delaying to come; ⁴⁹ and may begin to beat his fellow bondservants and to eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the lord of that bondservant will be coming in a day in which he is not expecting him, and in an hour which he does not know, ⁵¹ and will flog him, and will place his part with the hypocrites–the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there.

¹ Now he also said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward, and he was indicted by him as one squandering his possessions. ² And having summoned him, he said to him, What is this that I am hearing concerning you? Give me the account of your stewardship; for you are not able to be a steward any longer.
³ But the steward said in himself, What should I do, because my lord is taking away the stewardship from me? I am not strong-enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I know what I should do, in order that whenever I am removed from the stewardship, they may accept me into their houses. ⁵ And calling to him each one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first, How much do you owe to my lord?
⁶ Now he said, A hundred eight-gallon containers of oil.
And he said to him, Accept your contract and when you have sat down, quickly write fifty.
⁷ Thereafter, he said to a different one, and how much do you owe?
Now he said, A hundred twelve-bushel containers of grain.
But he says to him, Accept your contract and write eighty.
⁸ And his lord praised the steward of unrighteousness because he had done prudently, because the sons of this world are more prudent to their own generation; even beyond the sons of the light.
⁹ And I say to you, Make^*\'b0 friends for yourselves out of the money of unrighteousness; in order that, whenever it fails, they may accept you into the everlasting tabernacles. ¹⁰ The faithful in the least matters is also faithful in much, and the unrighteous in the least matters is also unrighteous in much. ¹¹ Therefore, if you have not become faithful in the unrighteous money, who will be entrusting the true riches to you? ¹² And if you have not become faithful in what is another’s, who will be giving you what is yours? ¹³ No domestic servant is able to serve two lords; for either he will hate the one and love the other; for either he will hold to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.

¹⁵ And it happened, while he was coming back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these bondservants, to whom he gave the silver, to be summoned to him, in order that he might know what they had made by trading.

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.

¹³ For the judgment is merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy; mercy wins over judgment.

⁴ Behold, the wages of the workers who mowed your farmlands, the wages which have been defrauded by you, are crying out against you and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

¹⁴ These will make war with the Lamb and the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those called and chosen and faithful with him.

¹⁶ And he has upon his garment and upon his thigh a name has been written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Jehovah in ceasing to pray for you*. But I will instruct you* in the good and the right way.

⁴ Yes, you do away with fear and hinder devotion before God.

⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul? ⁹ Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? ¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?

¹⁶ As for me, I will call upon God and Jehovah will save me. ¹⁷ Evening and morning and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.

⁴ They are my adversaries instead of my love, but I make prayer.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, in order that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed eager, but the flesh is weak.

³³ Beware, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

¹ Now he also spoke a parable to them, to show that it is essential for them to always pray, and not to be depressed;

³⁶ Therefore, watch in every season, beseeching, in order that you might be deemed worthy to flee away from all the things which are about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.

¹² rejoicing in the hope; enduring in your affliction; persevering in your prayer;

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.

⁶ Be anxious in nothing, but in everything, let your requests be made known to God by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.

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,

⁷ having been rooted and being built up in him and being confirmed in the faith, just-as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

¹⁵ And let the peace of God arbitrate in your hearts, for which you were also called in one body, and become thankful.

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.

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.

¹⁷ Pray constantly. ¹⁸ Give-thanks in everything; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

⁷ But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore, be sensible and be sober for prayers.

¹¹ But he answered and said to them, It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but it has not given to those men.

²⁷ Now when they came and gathered the congregation together, they reported how-much God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

³⁰ Now brethren, I am encouraging you through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to struggle together with me, and on my behalf in your prayers to God; ³¹ in order that I may be rescued away from those who are disobedient in Judea and in order that my service which I have for Jerusalem might become acceptable to the holy-ones; ³² in order that I may come to you in joy through the will of God and I may rest together with you.

¹ So let a man count us as attendants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

⁹ for a large and effective door has opened to me and many are laying in opposition to me.

¹² Now when I came to Troas for the good-news of the Christ and when a door had been opened to me in the Lord,

¹ Because of this, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

¹ Therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, am encouraging you to walk worthily of the calling in which you were called,

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.

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.

¹⁹ For I know that this will be transpiring for my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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.

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.

²⁵ Brethren, pray concerning us.

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.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and is not ashamed of my chain;

⁹ in which I am suffering evil treatment, even as far as bonds, like a criminal, but the word of God has not been bound.

²² But also at the same time, prepare me a lodging. For I am hoping that through your prayers I will be granted to you.

¹⁸ Pray concerning us; for we have confidence that we have a good conscience, wishing to conduct ourselves in a good manner in all things. ¹⁹ But I am encouraging you even-more to do this, in order that I may be restored to you shortly.

⁷ And write to the messenger of the congregation in Philadelphia:
He (the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will lock, except he who opens and no one will open) says these things: ⁸ I know your works (behold, I have given you an opened door which is in your sight, which no one is able to lock it), that you have little power and kept my word and did not deny my name.

²⁶ Therefore do not fear them; for there is nothing hidden, which will not be revealed, and nothing secret, which will not be known. ²⁷ What I am speaking to you in the darkness, speak in the light, and what you hear in your^\'b0 ear, preach upon the housetops.

²⁹ And hereafter, Lord, look upon their threats and give to your bondservants to speak your word with all boldness,

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answered and said, It is essential for us to obey God rather than men.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ in order that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but be in the power of God.

¹⁴ Now gratitude to God, who always makes us to triumph in the Christ and the aroma of his knowledge in every place is manifest through us. ¹⁵ Because we are a sweet-fragrance of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who are perishing; ¹⁶ to the one an aroma from death to death, but to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient in these things? ¹⁷ For we are not as the rest who are peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in God’s sight, we speak in Christ.

¹² Therefore having such a hope, we are using it in much boldness,

¹ Because of this, having this service, just-as we have been shown-mercy, we are not depressed. ² But we ourselves have scoffed at the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in God’s sight. ³ But even if our good-news is being hidden, it is being hidden among those who are perishing, ⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the illumination of the good-news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn for them.

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.

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.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

¹⁶ Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore, become prudent like serpents and harmless like doves.

¹¹ And he said to them, You have been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things happen in parables;

¹⁹ For your obedience has reached out to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I wish for you to be indeed wise as to what is good, and harmless to what is evil.

¹² For what is it to me to judge those who are outside? Are you not judging those who are inside? ¹³ Now God will be judging those who are outside, and you will be taking away the evil man from among yourselves.

¹⁹ But in the congregation, I wish to speak five words through my mind in order that I might also instruct others, than ten thousand words in a foreign language.
²⁰ Brethren, do not become children in your mindsets, (but be infants in malice), but become mature in your mindsets. ²¹ It has been written in the law, ‘I will be speaking to this people in different languages and by other lips, and thus they will not even hear me, says the Lord.’ ²² So-then foreign languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving, but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. ²³ Therefore, if the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and if all speak with foreign languages, and if unskilled or unbelieving people come in, will they not be saying that you are insane? ²⁴ But if all prophesy and some unbelieving or unskilled person comes in, he is reproved by all. He is judged by all. ²⁵ And thus, the secret things of his heart become apparent, and so, when he has fallen down upon his face, he will be worshiping God, reporting that God really is among 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.

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.

¹² in order that you may walk decently toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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.}

⁵ But if anyone of you is deficient of wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach any, and it will be given to him.

¹³ Who is wise and knowledgeable among you? Let him show out of his good conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, thereafter is peaceful, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-pretended.

¹ Likewise, wives be subject to your own husbands; in order that, even if some are disobedient to the word, they might be gained without a word through the conduct of their wives;

¹³ And every oblation of your meal offering you will season with salt, nor will you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your oblations you will offer salt.

⁶ And these words, which I command you this day, will be upon your heart. ⁷ And you will teach them diligently to your sons and will talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

¹⁹ And you* will teach them to your* sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

²⁰ And he said, Bring me a new jar and put salt in it. And they brought it to him. ²¹ And he went forth to the spring of the waters and cast salt in it and said, Jehovah says thus, I have healed these waters. There will not be from there any more death or barren land. ²² So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

²⁴ Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.

³⁰ The mouth of a righteous man talks of wisdom and his tongue speaks justice. ³¹ The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps will slide.

⁹ I have proclaimed good news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not refrain my lips. O Jehovah, you know. ¹⁰ I have not hid your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

² You are fairer than the sons of men. Favor is poured into your lips. Therefore God has blessed you everlasting.

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you* who fear God and I will declare what he has done for my soul.

¹⁵ My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all the day, because I do not know the numbers.
¹⁶ I will come with the mighty acts of the lord Jehovah. I will make mention of your righteousness, yours only!
¹⁷ O God, you have taught me from my youth and I have declared your wondrous works until now.
¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared your strength to a generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

²³ My lips will shout for joy because I sing praises to you and my soul, which you have redeemed.
²⁴ My tongue also will talk of your righteousness all the day long. Because they are put to shame, because they are confounded, who seek my hurt.

³ which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us.
⁴ We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah and his strength and his wondrous works that he has done.

² Sing to him, sing praises to him. Talk of all his marvelous works.

¹³ I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth with my lips.

⁴⁶ I also will speak of your testimonies before kings and will not be put to shame.

²¹ The lips of a righteous man feeds many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

⁴ A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.

⁷ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the foolish, not so.

²¹ The wise in heart will be called prudent and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
²² Understanding is a well-spring of life to him who has it, but the correction of fools is folly.
²³ The heart of the wise instructs his mouth and adds learning to his lips.
²⁴ Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul and health to the bones.

¹⁷ Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise and apply your heart to my knowledge. ¹⁸ Because it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if they are established together upon your lips.

¹¹ A timely word spoken is apples of gold in a lattice-work of silver.
¹² An earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is reproving a wise one upon an obedient ear.

⁴ Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like to him. ⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he is wise in his own conceit.

¹² The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up.

¹⁶ Then those who feared Jehovah spoke one with another and Jehovah listened and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared Jehovah and who thought upon his name. ¹⁷ And they will be mine, says Jehovah of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. ¹⁸ Then you* will return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between he who serves God and he who does not serve him.

¹³ You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt is flavorless, then with what shall it be salted? It is still not strong-enough to be used for anything, except to be cast outside and trampled by men.

³⁴ Offspring of vipers! How are you, being evil, able to speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth is speaking. ³⁵ The good man out of his good treasure is casting out good things and the evil man out of his evil treasure is casting out evil things.

⁵⁰ The salt is good, but if the salt has become non-salty, in what shall you season it? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace one with another.

{Mat 18:15-35.}

{Joh 7:2-9; Galilee, probably Capernaum.}

{Luk 9:51-56 & Joh 7:10; Samaria, Sept., 29 AD.}

{Luk 9:57-62.}

{Joh 7:11-10:1-21; Jerusalem, Oct., 29 AD.}

{Luk 10:1-24; Probably Judea, Oct., 29 AD.}

{Luk 10:25-37; Probably Judea.}

{Luk 10:38-42; Bethany, near Jerusalem.}

{Luk 11:1-13; Probably Judea.}

{Luk 11:14-13:9.}

²² And all were testifying of him, and were marveling at the words of favor which traveled from his mouth, and they were saying, Is this not Joseph’s son?

²⁰ And having observed him, they sent forth agents, who themselves pretended to be righteous, in order that they might grab him from his speech, that they might give him to the rule and the authority of the governor. ²¹ And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach correctly, and do not accept the countenance of men, but in truth, are teaching the way of God. ²² Is it legal for us to give tax to Caesar or not?
²³ But he perceived their craftiness and said to them, Why are you testing me? ²⁴ Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription has it?
But they answered and said, Caesar’s.
²⁵ But he said to them, Now-then, give to Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and to God the things which are God’s. ²⁶ And they were not strong-enough to grasp his declaration in front of the people, and they marveled at his answer and were silent.


²⁷ Now some of the Sadducees came to him, those who contradict the resurrection–there is no resurrection; and they asked him, ²⁸ saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, in order that if anyone’s brother dies, having a wife, and this one should die childless, his brother should take the wife and should raise up seed to his brother. ²⁹ Therefore, there were seven brethren, and the first took a wife and died childless; ³⁰ and the second took the woman and this one died childless; ³¹ and the third took her, and likewise, the seven also left no children and they all died. ³² The woman also died later. ³³ Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of them does she become? For the seven had her as wife.
³⁴ And Jesus answered and said to them, The sons of this world marry and are betrothed. ³⁵ But those who are deemed worthy into that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are they betrothed, ³⁶ for neither are they able to die anymore; for they are equal to the messengers, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. ³⁷ But that the dead are raised, even Moses divulged at the bush, as he calls the Lord, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. ³⁸ Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him.
³⁹ But some of the scribes answered and said, Teacher, you have said well.

⁴⁰ But they were not daring anymore to ask him anything.

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.

¹⁵ but make the Lord God holy in your hearts, and be ready habitually with a defense to everyone who is asking you for a reason concerning the hope which is in you, with meekness and fear;

⁴ Now Sopater from Berea, and the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, were accompanying him to Asia.

¹ So let a man count us as attendants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² But furthermore, it is required in stewards, in order that someone should be found faithful. ³ But it is at the least concern to me, in order that I might be judged by you or by a human judgment day. But I am not even judging myself. ⁴ For I have been conscious of nothing in myself, but I have not been made righteous in this thing. But he who is judging me is the Lord.

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.

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;

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.

¹² But Tychicus I sent to Ephesus.

¹² Whenever I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, be diligent to come to me in Nicopolis; for I have decided to winter there.

¹ Comfort you*, comfort my people, says your* God.

² to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, ³ to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

¹⁷ Because of this, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will be reminding you of my ways, the ones in Christ, just-as I am teaching everywhere in every congregation.

⁴ who is encouraging us on our every affliction, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

⁷ so-that you, rather instead, are to forgive him and to encourage him, lest such a one might be swallowed up with his sorrow even-more.

¹⁸ I encouraged Titus and I sent the brother together with him. Did Titus take-advantage of any of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same footprints?

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.

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.

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,

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

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;

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.

¹⁸ So-then, encourage one another in these words.

¹¹ Hence, encourage one another and build up one by one, just-as you are also practicing.

¹⁴ But brethren, we encourage you : admonish the disorderly, console the fainthearted, hold up the weak, have patience toward all.

¹⁷ may comfort your hearts and may establish them in all the word and in good work.

⁷ Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant, and my fellow bondservant in the Lord will make all things known to you from me;

¹⁰ I am encouraging you concerning my child, whom I have fathered in my bonds, Onesimus, ¹¹ who was not useful to you previously, but is useful to you now and to me whom I have sent back to you. ¹² But you, receive him, this is my heart; ¹³ whom I was planning to hold here for myself, in order that he might serve me in the bonds of the good-news on your behalf. ¹⁴ But I wished to do nothing without your viewpoint; in order that your good deed may not be according to necessity, but according to your voluntary deed. ¹⁵ For perhaps because of this, he was separated from you for a season, in order that you may have him in the everlasting world; ¹⁶ no longer as a bondservant, but beyond a bondservant, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. ¹⁷ Therefore, if you have me like a partner, receive him like myself. ¹⁸ But if he has wronged you in anything or owes you anything, charge this to my account. ¹⁹ I, Paul, write it with my own hand. I will be compensating you; in order that I may not say to you, You are even owing yourself to me.

³⁶ Now Joses, who was surnamed Barnabas from the apostles, (which is, being translated, Son of Encouragement), a Levite from Cyprus by birth,

¹² And being conscious of it, he came upon the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where a considerable number was accumulating together and were praying.

⁵ And when they happened to be in Salamis, they were proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John, an attendant.

¹³ Now Paul, with those around him, having set-sail from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem.

³⁷ Now Barnabas also planned to take together with them John, the one called Mark. ³⁸ But Paul was not deeming it worthy to take Mark together with them, the one who withdrew away from them from Pamphylia and did not go together with them to the work. ³⁹ Therefore it happened: a sharp-disagreement, so-that they departed from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him to sail away to Cyprus;

²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion and they rushed united into the theater, having seized Paul’s fellow traveling-associates, Gaius and Aristarchus, who were Macedonians.

² Now having stepped on board, in a Adramyttium ship, which is about to sail throughout the places along Asia, we set-sail, also being together with us was Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica.

² in order that you should accept her in the Lord, worthy of the holy-ones, and that you should stand beside her in whatever matter she has need from you. For she herself has also become an assistant of many, and of me myself.

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives, who are notable even among the apostles, who has also happened to be in Christ before me.

²¹ Timothy my fellow worker greets you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relatives. ²² I Tertius, who writes this letter, greet you in the Lord. ²³ Gaius greets you, my host and of the whole congregation. Erastus the steward of the city greets you and Quartus the brother.

¹¹ Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you; for he is useful to me for service.

²⁴ so do my fellow workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke.

¹³ She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, and my son Mark greets you.

⁸ Beware in yourselves, in order that you should not destroy the things which we have worked in you, but in order that we may receive a full reward. ⁹ Everyone who transgresses and is not abiding in the teaching of the Christ, does not have God. He who abides in the teaching of Christ, this one has both the Father and the Son.

⁴⁵ And the believing ones from the circumcision, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit has also been poured out upon the Gentiles.

² And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were arguing with him,

¹² and the father of circumcision, to those not only from the circumcision, but to those who also are marching in the footprints of the faith of our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision.

⁵ Therefore, who is Paul? And who is Apollos? But servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. ⁷ So-then neither is the one who is planting anything, nor the one who is watering, but God who is causing the growth. ⁸ Now the one who is planting and the one who is watering are one, but each one will be receiving his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s cultivation, God’s building.

¹ And working together with him, we are also encouraging you to not accept the grace of God in vain;

⁶ But God, who encourages the humble, encouraged us at the presence of Titus; ⁷ and not only at his presence, but also at the encouragement to which he was encouraged in you, while reporting to us your longing, your anguish, your zeal on my behalf; so-that I rejoiced even more.

⁷ But instead, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the good-news of the uncircumcision, just-as Peter that of the circumcision ⁸ (for he who worked in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision also worked in me to the Gentiles).

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;

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.

⁷ Brethren, because of this, we were comforted on the basis of you in all our affliction and calamity through your faith,

¹⁰ For there are many even rebellious men, empty-talkers and deceivers, especially those out of the circumcision,

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow worker,

⁴⁸ Therefore you will be complete, just-like your Father is complete, the one in the heavens.

⁴⁴ And having become in agony, he was praying more intensely, and his sweat became like thick drops of blood going down upon the soil.

²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the Father will be honoring him.

¹⁴ And my brethren, I also have confidence in myself concerning you, that you yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish one another.

³⁰ Now brethren, I am encouraging you through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to struggle together with me, and on my behalf in your prayers to God;

⁶ Now we are speaking wisdom among the mature ones; yet a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being done-away-with;

²⁰ Brethren, do not become children in your mindsets, (but be infants in malice), but become mature in your mindsets.

¹¹ Furthermore brethren: rejoice; be completed; be comforted; be mindful of the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹⁰ For am I now persuading men or God? Or am I seeking to please men? For if I was still pleasing men, I myself would not be a bondservant of Christ.

¹⁹ My little-children, of whom I am in travail again till whenever Christ has been formed in you.

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;

⁷ just-as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondservant, who is a faithful servant of the Christ on your behalf,

²² in the body of his flesh through his death, to present you holy and unblemished and irreproachable in his sight;

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;

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.

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;

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.

²³ Epaphras, my fellow captive in Christ Jesus, greets you;

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, has offered up both prayers and supplications with a strong outcry and tears to the one who was able to save him from death and having been heard from his piety.

¹⁴ But solid nourishment is for the mature ones, from those who, through their habit, have had their senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

¹ James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes, those who are in the dispersion. Hail to you!

¹⁶ Therefore confess your trespasses to one another, and pray on behalf of one another, that you may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man prevails; much in its working.

¹ Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are allotted an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

²⁴ Now to the one who is able to guard us from falling and to stand us in the sight of his glory, unblemished in gladness,

² For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to full knowledge.

³ I testify, because according to their power, and yet beyond their power, they gave of their own accord.

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;

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.

¹¹ saying, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven congregations : to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

¹⁴ And write to the messenger of the congregation in Laodicea:
The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the one in the beginning from the creation of God, says these things: ¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish-that you might be cold or hot. ¹⁶ So because you are lukewarm and not hot nor cold, I am about to puke you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you say, I am rich and have enriched ourselves and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are the miserable and the pitiful and are poor and blind and naked. ¹⁸ I am counseling together with you to buy gold from me, having been refined out of fire, in order that you may be enriched, and in order that you should dress yourself with white garments and in order that the shame of your nakedness should not be manifested to all, and in order that you may anoint your eyes with eye-salve, in order that you may see.

¹⁰ for Demas forsook me and traveled to Thessalonica, having loved this current age; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. ¹¹ Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you; for he is useful to me for service.

⁵ and the congregation who is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.

² and to the beloved Apphia and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the congregation in your house:

²⁷ I am imploring you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the holy brethren.

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.

³ Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be made holy by those who come near me. And I will be glorified before all the people. And Aaron remained silent.

⁵ And you* will keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, that there is no more wrath upon the sons of Israel.

¹¹ My sons, do not be negligent now. For Jehovah has chosen you* to stand before him, to minister to him and that you* should be his ministers and burn incense.

²³ And they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
²⁴ And in a controversy they will stand to judge. They will judge it according to my ordinances. And they will keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts and they will sanctify my Sabbaths.

¹⁷ because he was numbered together with us and was allotted his inheritance in this service.

²³ Now having assigned elders to them in every congregation, and when they had prayed with fastings, they consigned them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

²⁸ Therefore, take-heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God, which the Lord acquired through his own blood.

¹ So let a man count us as attendants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² But furthermore, it is required in stewards, in order that someone should be found faithful.

¹¹ And he gave some to be : the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers

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.

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.

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.

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.

²⁰ O Timothy, guard the deposit consigned to you, turning away from the profane empty-talks and oppositions of the falsely named knowledge;

⁶ Because of which case, I am reminding you to rekindle the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

² And the things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, consign these to faithful men, who will also be competent to teach others.

¹ Therefore, I am thoroughly testifying in the sight of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearing and his kingdom. ² Preach the word. Stand-ready opportunely and inopportunely. Reprove, rebuke and encourage in all patience and teaching. ³ For the time will be coming when they will not be tolerating the sound teaching, but having itchy ears, they will be piling up for themselves teachers according to their own lusts; ⁴ and will indeed turn their ears away from the truth and their ears will be turned aside to fables. ⁵ But you, be sober in all things, suffer evil treatment, do the work of an evangelist, fully assure your service.

²⁰ Now the God of peace will crush the Adversary under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is among you.

²³ Gaius greets you, my host and of the whole congregation. Erastus the steward of the city greets you and Quartus the brother.

²¹ The greeting from Paul with my own hand.

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with all of you.
Amen.

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;

¹⁷ The greeting from me, Paul, I thus am writing with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter.

²¹ which some professing have deviated concerning the faith.
Grace is with you. Amen.

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⁸ Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me, his prisoner, but suffer-hardship together with the good-news according to the power of God,

²² The Lord Jesus Christ, is with your spirit. Grace is with you. Amen.

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¹⁵ All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith.
Grace is with all of you. Amen.

³ Remember those who are prisoners, as having been bound together with them; those who are mistreated, as though being mistreated yourselves also in the body.

²⁵ Grace is with all of you. Amen.