And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

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

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

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

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.

Tychicus, a dear brother, faithful minister, and fellow slave in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.

And tell Archippus, “See to it that you complete the ministry you received in the Lord.”

nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

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

From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing – and will do – what we are commanding.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter.

to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

As I urged you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to spread false teachings,

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

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,