Study Desk

For the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever honorable, whatever is right, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever of good report, if of any virtue, and if of any praise, think on these things.

Not that I speak as to need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.

I have strength for all things in Christ the One strengthening me.

because of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,

even as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-slave, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

For this cause also, from the day in which we heard, we do not cease praying on your behalf, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

for you to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God;

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light,

For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible; whether thrones, or lordships, or rulers, or authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him.

of which I became a minister, according to the administration of God given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God,

for which also I labor, struggling according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have concerning you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

For though I am indeed absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

which things are all for corruption in the using, according to the "injunctions and teachings of men." Isa. 29:13

For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.

whom I sent to you for this very thing, that he might know the things about you, and that he might comfort your hearts,

And Jesus, the one being called Justus, those being of the circumcision, greet you , these only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, who became a comfort to me.