And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

Now therefore perform the doing [of it;] that as [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may be] a performance also out of that which ye have.

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

Only [they would] that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us; ]

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether [he be] bond or free.

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the [epistle] from Laodicea.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it. ]

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

I charge [thee] before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,

But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.

And this will we do, if God permit.

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.