Study Desk

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 lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that 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.

but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.

So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.

The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.