And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.

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

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan that operates by faith.

and our Lord’s grace was abundant, bringing faith and love in Christ Jesus.

For the scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker deserves his pay.”

An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

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

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.