When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

They sent this letter with them: From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia, greetings!

because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”

After three months we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the “Heavenly Twins” as its figurehead.

but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

I praise you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

I am confident in the Lord that you will accept no other view. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.

Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross – through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you!

For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle – I am telling the truth; I am not lying – and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.