We did this as a precaution so that no one should blame us in regard to this generous gift we are administering.

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

I appeal to Euodia and to Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.

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

Likewise also their wives must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.

Protect that good thing entrusted to you, through the Holy Spirit who lives within us.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

But they will not go much further, for their foolishness will be obvious to everyone, just like it was with Jannes and Jambres.

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.

who was formerly useless to you, but is now useful to you and me.

Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.