Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account.”

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Pray for me also, that I may be given the message when I begin to speak – that I may confidently make known the mystery of the gospel,

Therefore, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold on to the traditions that we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

I, Paul, have written this letter with my own hand: I will repay it. I could also mention that you owe me your very self.

And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up – and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

for no prophecy was ever borne of human impulse; rather, men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.