These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.

I, Paul, write this greeting by my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter.

sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers – in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

For those who have served well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me – may they not be held accountable for it.

Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith

Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.

“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.

From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.