Study Desk

Salute the brethren in La-od-i-ce''a, and salute Nym-phas and his family and the congregation that meets at his house.

To wait for his Son from heaven, even Jesus, whom he raised from the dead, for it is he who will deliver us from the wrath to come.

But just as we have been examined by God to be entrusted with his gospel, even so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who searches our hearts.

You know how we exhorted and encouraged and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,

And we bore the testimony to you, so that you may live a life worthy of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.

And may he strengthen your hearts to be without blemish in holiness before God 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 honour;

And that no man overreach to transgress and defraud his brother in this matter; because our LORD is the avenger of all such, as we have also forewarned you and testified.

Therefore, he who does an injustice, does not wrong man but God who has also given unto you his Holy Spirit.

Faithful is he who has called you and he will keep his word.

As an example of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be made worthy of his kingdom, for which you also suffer.

And to you who are oppressed, he shall grant to be at peace with us, when our LORD Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven with the host of his angels,

For they, at the judgment day, shall be rewarded with everlasting destruction from the presence of our LORD, and from the glory of his power;

When he comes to be glorified by his saints and to perform his wonders among his faithful ones, so that our testimony, concerning you, may be believed in that day.

And now you know what has prevented him from being revealed in his time.

Then shall the Wicked be exposed, that one whom our LORD Jesus shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the revelation of his coming:

Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, who has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through his grace,

And I thank our LORD Jesus Christ who has given me strength, and has counted me trustworthy, and has appointed me to his ministry;

One who rules well his own household, and keeps his children under submission to bring them up with all purity.

For if a man does not know how to rule well his own household, how shall he take care of the church of God?