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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

As many, therefore, as <FI>are<Fi> perfect--let us think this, and if <FI>in<Fi> anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up--to victory;

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!' — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men--especially of those believing.

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, — read the full passage →

in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle--truth I say in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth; — read the full passage →

and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, <FI>is<Fi> honour and glory--to the ages of the ages! Amen.

according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus--I going on to Macedonia--that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, — read the full passage →

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying,

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-<FI> stone<Fi> ,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing; — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught <FI>it<Fi> , but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead--

I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago--whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known--such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

for those such <FI>are<Fi> false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us--to reach even unto you; — read the full passage →

and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we--we shall be changed:

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam <FI>is<Fi> for a life-giving spirit,

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

All flesh <FI>is<Fi> not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;

and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body. — read the full passage →

and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

But some one will say, `How do the dead rise? — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead? — read the full passage →

Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?

for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet-- — read the full passage →

then--the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power--

and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive, — read the full passage →

And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?

And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons? — read the full passage →

whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that <FI>is<Fi> towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that <FI>is<Fi> with me;

afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve, — read the full passage →

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

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

and if any one is ignorant--let him be ignorant;

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you--that of the Lord they are commands;

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; — read the full passage →

for God is not <FI>a God<Fi> of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon <FI>his<Fi> face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy <FI>is<Fi> not for the unbelieving, but for the believing, — read the full passage →

in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known? — read the full passage →

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; — read the full passage →

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. — read the full passage →

and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:

have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; — read the full passage →

for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; — read the full passage →

And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;