For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness – a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, given to you and confirmed by prophetic words when the elders laid hands on you.

Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

And entrust what you heard me say in the presence of many others as witnesses to faithful people who will be competent to teach others as well.

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions with the oil of rejoicing.”

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.