for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,
And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
who <FI>were<Fi> once not a people, and <FI>are<Fi> now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.
lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you--doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his reward.'
and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.
and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — read the full passage →
and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.
Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;
if to others I am not an apostle--yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
and labour, working with <FI>our<Fi> own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
because nothing shall be impossible with God.'
for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;
be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;
and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;
For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;
so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.
for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, — read the full passage →
For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;
and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,
these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'
if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.
if ye ask anything in my name I will do <FI>it<Fi> .
work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.'
`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →
`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →
for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying, — read the full passage →
feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,
James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →
As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →
among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others, — read the full passage →
Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, `Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath? — read the full passage →
And Jesus answering said, `Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news', — read the full passage →
`Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles, — read the full passage →
`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →
And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, — read the full passage →
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: YLT.