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[Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages, and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

For which I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Salute the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.

And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.

As ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,

That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you into his kingdom and glory.

For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

To the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given to us his holy Spirit.

And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired by all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power:

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will destroy with the brightness of his coming: