Farewell

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.

They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him, — read the full passage →

All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly. — read the full passage →

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. — read the full passage →

They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

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

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men,

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

but taking his leave of them, and saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.