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So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;

But ye did not so learn Christ;

if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me:

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them which so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.

Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God–ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.