For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says: “Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

As a result God exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

Therefore let those of us who are “perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

So then, my brothers and sisters, dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!

to the saints, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you from God our Father!

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 –

rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

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

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

For I can testify that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.

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.

But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere 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,

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.