Protect that good thing entrusted to you, through the Holy Spirit who lives within us.

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

that the person dedicated to God may be capable and equipped for every good work.

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.

But “when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.

I am appealing to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become during my imprisonment, that is, Onesimus,

and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.

and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Now without dispute the inferior is blessed by the superior,

For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins when Melchizedek met him.

By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

For who is going to harm you if you are devoted to what is good?

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.