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For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—