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That is why we always pray for you. We ask our God to make you worthy of the life he has called you to live. May he fulfill by his power all your desire for goodness and complete your work of faith.

Then the Wicked One will be revealed, but when the Lord Jesus comes, he will kill him with the breath from his mouth and destroy him with his dazzling presence.

We must thank God at all times for you, friends, you whom the Lord loves. For God chose you as the first to be saved by the Spirit's power to make you his holy people and by your faith in the truth.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope,

And our Lord poured out his abundant grace on me and gave me the faith and love which are ours in union with Christ Jesus.

but God was merciful to me in order that Christ Jesus might show his full patience in dealing with me, the worst of sinners, as an example for all those who would later believe in him and receive eternal life.

A church leader must be without fault; he must have only one wife, be sober, self-controlled, and orderly; he must welcome strangers in his home; he must be able to teach;

he must be able to manage his own family well and make his children obey him with all respect.

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?

A church helper must have only one wife, and be able to manage his children and family well.

A widow who is all alone, with no one to take care of her, has placed her hope in God and continues to pray and ask him for his help night and day.

Before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who firmly professed his faith before Pontius Pilate, I command you

His appearing will be brought about at the right time by God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

For the Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control.

He saved us and called us to be his own people, not because of what we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace. He gave us this grace by means of Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

May the Lord grant him his mercy on that Day! And you know very well how much he did for me in Ephesus.

A soldier on active duty wants to please his commanding officer and so does not get mixed up in the affairs of civilian life.

Do your best to win full approval in God's sight, as a worker who is not ashamed of his work, one who correctly teaches the message of God's truth.

But the solid foundation that God has laid cannot be shaken; and on it are written these words: "The Lord knows those who are his" and "Those who say that they belong to the Lord must turn away from wrongdoing."

And then they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the Devil, who had caught them and made them obey his will.