Study Desk

Say to Archippus, See that you do the work which the Lord has given you to do.

But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.

And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see.

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.

Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;

In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now.

But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.

And again he says, I will put my faith in him. And again, See, I am here, and the children which God has given to me.

So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.

For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.