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The Lord will deliver me from every cruel attack and will keep me safe in preparation for His heavenly Kingdom. To Him be the glory until the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

in hope of the Life of the Ages which God, who is never false to His word, promised before the commencement of the Ages.

And at the appointed time He clearly made known His Message in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour:

wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.

For, as God's steward, a minister must be of blameless life, not over-fond of having his own way, not a man of a passionate temper nor a hard drinker, not given to blows nor greedy of gain,

who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we,

as righteous men, had done, but as the result of His own mercy He saved us by means of the bath of regeneration and the renewal of our natures by the Holy Spirit,

in order that having been declared righteous through His grace we might become heirs to the Life of the Ages in fulfilment of our hopes.

Help Zenas the lawyer forward on his journey with special care, and Apollos, so that they may have all they require.

Formerly he was useless to you, but now--true to his name--he is of great use to you and to me.

Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure, but might be a voluntary one.

He brightly reflects God's glory and is the exact representation of His being, and upholds the universe by His all-powerful word. After securing man's purification from sin He took His seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

But speaking of the time when He once more brings His Firstborn into the world, He says, "And let all God's angels worship Him."

Moreover of the angels He says, "He changes His angels into winds, and His ministering servants into a flame of fire."

But of His Son, He says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and for ever, and the sceptre of Thy Kingdom is a sceptre of absolute justice.

It is also of His Son that God says, "Thou, O Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands.

while God corroborated their testimony by signs and marvels and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed in accordance with His own will.

Thou hast put everything in subjection under his feet." For this subjecting of the universe to man implies the leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not as yet see the universe subject to him.

But Jesus--who was made a little inferior to the angels in order that through God's grace He might taste death for every human being--we already see wearing a crown of glory and honour because of His having suffered death.