Why too are we in danger every hour?

if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.

For I testify, they gave according to their means and beyond their means. They did so voluntarily,

When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

So they glorified God because of me.

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

I wish those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves!

If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Do everything without grumbling or arguing,

that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.

But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!

He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this.

For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance.

Reinforce these commands, so that they will be beyond reproach.

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.