Study Desk

Remain deeply rooted in him; continue being built up in him and confirmed in your trust, the way you were taught, so that you overflow in thanksgiving.

Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human tradition which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah.

So don't let anyone pass judgment on you in connection with eating and drinking, or in regard to a Jewish festival or Rosh-Hodesh or Shabbat.

So if you were raised along with the Messiah, then seek the things above, where the Messiah is sitting at the right hand of God .

Bear with one another; if anyone has a complaint against someone else, forgive him. Indeed, just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must forgive.

let your conversation always be gracious and interesting, so that you will know how to respond to any particular individual.

I have sent him to you for this very reason — so that you might know how we are, and so that he might encourage you.

You, indeed, became imitators of us and of the Lord; so that even though you were going through severe troubles, you received the Word with joy from the Ruach HaKodesh.

We were so devoted to you that we were glad to share with you not only God's Good News but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless our behavior was in the sight of you believers;

by trying to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles, so that they may be delivered. Their object seems to be always to make their sins as bad as possible! But God's fury will catch up with them in the end.

We wanted so much to come to you — I, Sha'ul, tried more than once — but the Adversary stopped us.

So when we could no longer stand it, we agreed to be left in Athens alone

so that none of you would let these persecutions unsettle him. For you yourselves know that these are bound to come to us;

so that now we are alive; since you continue to stand fast, united with the Lord.

so that he may give you the inner strength to be blameless, by reason of your holiness, when you stand before God our Father at the coming of our Lord Yeshua with all his angels.

Therefore, brothers, just as you learned from us how you had to live in order to please God, and just as you are living this way now, we ask you — indeed, united with the Lord Yeshua, we urge you — to keep doing so more and more.

So encourage each other with these words.

When people are saying, "Everything is so peaceful and secure," then destruction will suddenly come upon them, the way labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there is no way they will escape.

But you, brothers, are not in the dark, so that the Day should take you by surprise like a thief;