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lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivereth us from the wrath to come.

as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,

to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power

who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.

And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;

I thank him that enabled me, [even] Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to [his] service;

howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ shew forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them which should hereafter believe on him unto eternal life.

one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;

(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.