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Let none defraud you of your reward by a voluntary humility and worship of angels, intruding into the 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 at Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church in his house.

to serve the living and true God, And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he hath raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

as a father his own children, And charged you to walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.

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

That he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness (before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ) with all his saints.

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

That none circumvent or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have also told you before and testified.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man but God; who hath also given you his Holy Spirit.

And to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus 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 in all that believe (now that our testimony was believed among you) in that day.

To this end we pray always for you, that our God would make you worthy of this calling, and fulfill in you all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power;

And now ye know that which with-holdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

And then will that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Ruling his own house well, having his children in subjection with all seriousness.

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

But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own family, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward.