To the married I give this command – not I, but the Lord – a wife should not divorce a husband

The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate) he has saddened all of you as well.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord –

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

to the saints, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you from God our Father!

You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave – a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf –

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.

to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

And he must be well thought of by those outside the faith, so that he may not fall into disgrace and be caught by the devil’s trap.

to Timothy, my dear child. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior!

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.