Study Desk

to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God's message will not be slandered.

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

or stealing, but demonstrating utter faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

so that having been justified by His grace, we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

This saying is trustworthy. I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed God might be careful to devote themselves to good works. These are good and profitable for everyone.

Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey, so that they will lack nothing.

And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works for cases of urgent need, so that they will not be unfruitful.

I wanted to keep him with me, so that in my imprisonment for the gospel he might serve me in your place.

But I didn't want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of obligation, but of your own free will.

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a brief time, so that you might get him back permanently,

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave—as a dearly loved brother. He is especially so to me, but even more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

So if you consider me a partner, accept him as you would me.

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, and so do

So He became higher in rank than the angels, just as the name He inherited is superior to theirs.

We must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

But we do see Jesus— made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God's grace He might taste death for everyone—crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering in death.

Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil—

Therefore, He had to be like His brothers in every way, so that He could become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

So I swore in My anger, "They will not enter My rest."

Watch out, brothers, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.