Study Desk

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.

since it is just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

when he takes vengeance with flaming fire on those who don’t know God and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

In view of this, we always pray for you that our God will make you worthy of his calling, and by his power fulfill your every desire to do good and your work produced by faith,

so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie,

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope:

that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which was entrusted to me.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

This is good, and it pleases God our Savior,

For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity, the man Christ Jesus,

but with good works, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

since it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.

For this reason we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.