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Tough
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1COR 1:10-15 |
I urge you, brothers,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in
what you say, and that there be no divisions among you, but that
you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose. For it has
been reported to me about you, my brothers, by Chloe's people,
that there are rivalries among you. I mean that each of you is
saying, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos,"
or "I belong to Kephas," or "I belong to
Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or
were you baptized in the name of Paul? I give thanks (to God) that
I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one
can say you were baptized in my name. |
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1COR 1:18-31 |
The message of the
cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who
are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the learning of
the learned I will set aside." Where is the wise one?
Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not
God made the wisdom of the world foolish? For since in the
wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom,
it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation
to save those who have faith. For Jews demand signs and Greeks
look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling
block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are
called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the
wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human
wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
Consider your own calling, brothers. Not many of you were wise by
human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble
birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the
wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and
God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for
nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no
human being might boast before God. It is due to him that you
are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, so that, as it is
written, "Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord." |
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1COR 2:14 |
Now the natural
person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to
him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is
judged spiritually. |
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1COR 3:1-23 |
Brothers, I could not
talk to you as spiritual people, but as fleshly people, as infants
in Christ. I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable
to take it. Indeed, you are still not able, even now, for you are
still of the flesh. While there is jealousy and rivalry among
you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving in an ordinary human
way? Whenever someone says, "I belong to Paul," and
another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely
human? What is Apollos, after all, and what is Paul? Ministers
through whom you became believers, just as the Lord assigned
each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth.
Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is
anything, but only God, who causes the growth. The one who
plants and the one who waters are equal, and each will receive
wages in proportion to his labor. For we are God's co-workers; you
are God's field, God's building. According to the grace of God
given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and
another is building upon it. But each one must be careful how he
builds upon it, for no one can lay a foundation other than the one
that is there, namely, Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this
foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or
straw, the work of each will come to light, for the Day will
disclose it. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire (itself)
will test the quality of each one's work. If the work stands
that someone built upon the foundation, that person will receive a
wage. But if someone's work is burned up, that one will suffer
loss; the person will be saved, but only as through fire. Do
you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit
of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will
destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is
holy. Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you
considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool so as to
become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the
eyes of God, for it is written: "He catches the wise in their
own ruses," and again: "The Lord knows the thoughts of
the wise, that they are vain." So let no one boast about
human beings, for everything belongs to you, Paul or Apollos or
Kephas, or the world or life or death, or the present or the
future: all belong to you, and you to Christ, and Christ to God. |
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1COR 4:1-7 |
Thus should one regard
us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Now it is of course required of stewards that they be found
trustworthy. It does not concern me in the least that I be judged
by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on
myself; I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not
thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord.
Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time,
until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in
darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then
everyone will receive praise from God. I have applied these things
to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, so that you may learn
from us not to go beyond what is written, so that none of you will
be inflated with pride in favor of one person over against
another. Who confers distinction upon you? What do you possess
that you have not received? But if you have received it, why are
you boasting as if you did not receive it? |
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1COR 4:9-19 |
For as I see it, God has
exhibited us apostles as the last of all, like people sentenced to
death, since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels
and human beings alike. We are fools on Christ's account, but
you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are
held in honor, but we in disrepute. To this very hour we go hungry
and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander
about homeless and we toil, working with our own hands. When
ridiculed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered,
we respond gently. We have become like the world's rubbish, the
scum of all, to this very moment. I am writing you this not to
shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. Even if
you should have countless guides to Christ, yet you do not have
many fathers, for I became your father in Christ Jesus through the
gospel. Therefore, I urge you, be imitators of me.
For this reason I am sending you Timothy, who is my beloved and
faithful son in the Lord; he will remind you of my ways in Christ
(Jesus), just as I teach them everywhere in every church. Some
have become inflated with pride, as if I were not coming to
you. But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I
shall ascertain not the talk of these inflated people but their
power. |
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1COR 5:1-13 |
It is widely reported
that there is immorality among you, and immorality of a kind not
found even among pagans - a man living with his father's wife. And
you are inflated with pride. Should you not rather have been
sorrowful? The one who did this deed should be expelled from your
midst. I, for my part, although absent in body but present in
spirit, have already, as if present, pronounced judgment on the
one who has committed this deed, in the name of (our) Lord Jesus:
when you have gathered together and I am with you in spirit with
the power of the Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to
Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may
be saved on the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not
appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the
dough? Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh
batch of dough... Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not
with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with
the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I wrote you in my
letter not to associate with immoral people, not at all
referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers
or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world. But I now
write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, if he
is immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a
robber, not even to eat with such a person. For why should I be
judging outsiders? Is it not your business to judge those within?
God will judge those outside. "Purge the evil person from
your midst." |
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1COR 6:1-11 |
How can any one of you
with a case against another dare to bring it to the unjust for
judgment instead of to the holy ones? Do you not know that the
holy ones will judge the world? If the world is to be judged by
you, are you unqualified for the lowest law courts? Do you not
know that we will judge angels? Then why not everyday matters?
If, therefore, you have courts for everyday matters, do you seat
as judges people of no standing in the church? I say this to shame
you. Can it be that there is not one among you wise enough to be
able to settle a case between brothers? But rather brother goes to
court against brother, and that before unbelievers? Now indeed
(then) it is, in any case, a failure on your part that you have
lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with
injustice? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated? Instead,
you inflict injustice and cheat, and this to brothers. Do you
not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do
not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers
nor boy prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals nor thieves nor the
greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the
kingdom of God. That is what some of you used to be; but now
you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit
of our God. |
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1COR 6:12-20 |
"Everything is
lawful for me," but not everything is beneficial.
"Everything is lawful for me," but I will not let myself
be dominated by anything. "Food for the stomach and the
stomach for food," but God will do away with both the one and
the other. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the
Lord, and the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will
also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies
are members of Christ? Shall I then take Christ's members and make
them the members of a prostitute? Of course not! (Or) do you not
know that anyone who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one
body with her? For "the two," it says, "will become
one flesh." But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one
spirit with him. Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person
commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against
his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
within you, whom you have from God, and that you are
not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore,
glorify God in your body. |
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1COR 7:1-9,17-20 |
Now in regard to the
matters about which you wrote: "It is a good thing for a
man not to touch a woman," but because of cases of
immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her
own husband. The husband should fulfill his duty toward his wife,
and likewise the wife toward her husband. A wife does not have
authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly
a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather
his wife. Do not deprive each other, except perhaps by mutual
consent for a time, to be free for prayer, but then return to one
another, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of
self-control. This I say by way of concession, however, not as a
command. Indeed, I wish everyone to be as I am, but each has a
particular gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. Now
to the unmarried and to widows, I say: it is a good thing for them
to remain as they are, as I do, but if they cannot exercise
self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to
be on fire...Only, everyone should live as the Lord has
assigned, just as God called each one. I give this order in all
the churches. Was someone called after he had been circumcised? He
should not try to undo his circumcision. Was an uncircumcised
person called? He should not be circumcised. Circumcision means
nothing, and uncircumcision means nothing; what matters is keeping
God's commandments. Everyone should remain in the state in which
he was called. |
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1COR 7:25-35 |
Now in regard to
virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my
opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy. So this is
what I think best because of the present distress: that it is a
good thing for a person to remain as he is. Are you bound to a
wife? Do not seek a separation. Are you free of a wife? Then
do not look for a wife. If you marry, however, you do not sin, nor
does an unmarried woman sin if she marries; but such people will
experience affliction in their earthly life, and I would like to
spare you that. I tell you, brothers, the time is running out.
From now on, let those having wives act as not having them, those
weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those
buying as not owning, those using the world as not using it fully.
For the world in its present form is passing away. I should
like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious
about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But a
married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may
please his wife, and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin
is anxious about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy
in both body and spirit. A married woman, on the other hand, is
anxious about the things of the world, how she may please her
husband. I am telling you this for your own benefit, not to impose
a restraint upon you, but for the sake of propriety and adherence
to the Lord without distraction. |
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1COR 8:2 |
If anyone supposes he
knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. |
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1COR 8:11-12 |
Thus through your
knowledge, the weak person is brought to destruction, the brother
for whom Christ died. When you sin in this way against your
brothers and wound their consciences, weak as they are, you are
sinning against Christ. |
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1COR 9:16-17 |
If I preach the
gospel, this is no reason for me to boast, for an obligation has
been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not preach it! If I
do so willingly, I have a recompense, but if unwillingly, then I
have been entrusted with a stewardship. |
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1COR 9:22-27 |
I have become all things
to all, to save at least some. All this I do for the sake of
the gospel, so that I too may have a share in it. Do you not know
that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one
wins the prize? Run so as to win. Every athlete exercises
discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but
we an imperishable one. Thus I do not run aimlessly; I do not
fight as if I were shadowboxing. No, I drive my body and train it,
for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be
disqualified. |
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1COR 10:1-12 |
I do not want you to
be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud
and all passed through the sea, and all of them were baptized into
Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All ate the same spiritual
food, and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from
a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ.
Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck
down in the desert. These things happened as examples for us, so
that we might not desire evil things, as they did. And do not
become idolaters, as some of them did, as it is written,
"The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to
revel." Let us not indulge in immorality as some of them
did, and twenty-three thousand fell within a single day. Let us
not test Christ as some of them did, and suffered death by
serpents. Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death
by the destroyer. These things happened to them as an example, and
they have been written down as a warning to us, upon whom the end
of the ages has come. Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing
secure should take care not to fall. |
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1COR 10:24,32-33 |
No one should seek
his own advantage, but that of his neighbor... Avoid giving
offense, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God, just
as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own
benefit but that of the many, that they may be saved. |
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1COR 11:3-16 |
But I want you to know
that Christ is the head of every man, and a husband the head of
his wife, and God the head of Christ. Any man who prays or
prophesies with his head covered brings shame upon his head. But
any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled brings
shame upon her head, for it is one and the same thing as if she
had had her head shaved. For if a woman does not have her head
veiled, she may as well have her hair cut off. But if it is
shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved,
then she should wear a veil. A man, on the other hand, should not
cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, but
woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but
woman from man; nor was man created for woman, but woman for man;
for this reason a woman should have a sign of authority on her
head, because of the angels. Woman is not independent of man or
man of woman in the Lord. For just as woman came from man, so man
is born of woman; but all things are from God. Judge for
yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head
unveiled? Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears his
hair long it is a disgrace to him, whereas if a woman has long
hair it is her glory, because long hair has been given (her) for a
covering? But if anyone is inclined to be argumentative,
we do not have such a custom, nor do the churches of God. |
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1COR 11:17-34 |
In giving this
instruction, I do not praise the fact that your meetings are doing
more harm than good. First of all, I hear that when you meet as a
church there are divisions among you, and to a degree I believe
it; there have to be factions among you in order that (also) those
who are approved among you may become known. When you meet in
one place, then, it is not to eat the Lord's supper, for in
eating, each one goes ahead with his own supper, and one goes
hungry while another gets drunk. Do you not have houses in which
you can eat and drink? Or do you show contempt for the church
of God and make those who have nothing feel ashamed? What can I
say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I do not praise
you. For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to
you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took
bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said,
"This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of
me." In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often
as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you
eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the
Lord until he comes. Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks
the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body
and blood of the Lord. A person should examine himself, and so
eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks
without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.
That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable
number are dying. If we discerned ourselves, we would not be under
judgment; but since we are judged by (the) Lord, we are being
disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for
one another. If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that
your meetings may not result in judgment. The other matters I
shall set in order when I come. |
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1COR 13:1-13 |
If I speak in human
and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong
or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and
comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so
as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give
away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may
boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is
patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous,
it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own
interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over
injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the
truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things. Love never fails. If there are
prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will
cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know
partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes,
the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as
a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man,
I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in
a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then
I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love
remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. |
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1COR 14:20 |
Brothers, stop being
childish in your thinking. In respect to evil be like infants, but
in your thinking be mature. |
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1COR 14:21 |
It is written in the
law: "By people speaking strange tongues and by the lips of
foreigners I will speak to this people, and even so they will not
listen to me, says the Lord." |
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1COR 14:33-38 |
As in all the
churches of the holy ones, women should keep silent in the
churches, for they are not allowed to speak, but should be
subordinate, as even the law says. But if they want to learn
anything, they should ask their husbands at home. For it is
improper for a woman to speak in the church. Did the word of
God go forth from you? Or has it come to you alone? If anyone
thinks that he is a prophet or a spiritual person, he should
recognize that what I am writing to you is a commandment of the
Lord. If anyone does not acknowledge this, he is not
acknowledged. |
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1COR 15:1-2 |
Now I am reminding
you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you indeed
received and in which you also stand. Through it you are also
being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to
you, unless you believed in vain. |
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1COR 15:33-34 |
Do not be led astray:
"Bad company corrupts good morals." Become sober as you
ought and stop sinning. For some have no knowledge of God; I say
this to your shame. |
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1COR 16:13-18 |
Be on your guard,
stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong. Your every act
should be done with love. I urge you, brothers - you know that
the household of Stephanas is the firstfruits of Achaia and that
they have devoted themselves to the service of the holy ones - be
subordinate to such people and to everyone who works and toils
with them. I rejoice in the arrival of Stephanas, Fortunatus,
and Achaicus, because they made up for your absence, for they
refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So give recognition to such
people. |
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1COR 16:22 |
If anyone does not
love the Lord, let him be accursed. Marana tha. |
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2COR 2:5-11 |
If anyone has caused
pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure (not to
exaggerate) to all of you. This punishment by the majority is
enough for such a person, so that on the contrary you should
forgive and encourage him instead, or else the person may be
overwhelmed by excessive pain. Therefore, I urge you to reaffirm
your love for him. For this is why I wrote, to know your proven
character, whether you were obedient in everything. Whomever you
forgive anything, so do I. For indeed what I have forgiven, if I
have forgiven anything, has been for you in the presence of
Christ, so that we might not be taken advantage of by Satan,
for we are not unaware of his purposes. |
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2COR 2:14-17 |
But thanks be to God,
who always leads us in triumph in Christ and manifests through us
the odor of the knowledge of him in every place. For we are the
aroma of Christ for God among those who are being saved and
among those who are perishing, to the latter an odor of death that
leads to death, to the former an odor of life that leads
to life. Who is qualified for this? For we are not like the
many who trade on the word of God; but as out of sincerity,
indeed as from God and in the presence of God, we speak in Christ. |
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2COR 3:12-16 |
Therefore, since we have
such hope, we act very boldly and not like Moses, who put a veil
over his face so that the Israelites could not look intently at
the cessation of what was fading. Rather, their thoughts were
rendered dull, for to this present day the same veil remains
unlifted when they read the old covenant, because through
Christ it is taken away. To this day, in fact, whenever Moses is
read, a veil lies over their hearts, but whenever a person turns
to the Lord the veil is removed. |
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2COR 4:1-6 |
Therefore, since we have
this ministry through the mercy shown us, we are not discouraged.
Rather, we have renounced shameful, hidden things; not acting
deceitfully or falsifying the word of God, but by the open
declaration of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's
conscience in the sight of God. And even though our gospel is
veiled, it is veiled for those who are perishing, in whose case
the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so
that they may not see the light of the gospel of the glory of
Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach
ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves
for the sake of Jesus. For God who said, "Let light shine out
of darkness," has shone in our hearts to bring to light the
knowledge of the glory of God on the face of (Jesus) Christ. |
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2COR 5:6-12 |
So we are always
courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body
we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yet
we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home
to the Lord. Therefore, we aspire to please him, whether we are at
home or away. For we must all appear before the judgment
seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according
to what he did in the body, whether good or evil. Therefore, since
we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but
we are clearly apparent to God, and I hope we are also apparent to
your consciousness. We are not commending ourselves to you again
but giving you an opportunity to boast of us, so that you may have
something to say to those who boast of external appearance rather
than of the heart. |
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2COR 6:1 |
Working together,
then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in
vain. |
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2COR 6:14-18 |
Do not be yoked with
those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do
righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light
have with darkness? What accord has Christ with Beliar? Or what
has a believer in common with an unbeliever? What agreement has
the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the
living God; as God said: "I will live with them and move
among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Therefore,
come forth from them and be separate," says the Lord,
"and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you and I
will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to
me, says the Lord Almighty." |
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2COR 7:1 |
Since we have these
promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every
defilement of flesh and spirit, making holiness perfect in the
fear of God. |
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2COR 7:8-16 |
For even if I saddened
you by my letter, I do not regret it; and if I did regret it
((for) I see that that letter saddened you, if only for a while),
I rejoice now, not because you were saddened, but because you were
saddened into repentance; for you were saddened in a godly
way, so that you did not suffer loss in anything because of us. For
godly sorrow produces a salutary repentance without regret, but
worldly sorrow produces death. For behold what earnestness
this godly sorrow has produced for you, as well as readiness for a
defense, and indignation, and fear, and yearning, and zeal, and
punishment. In every way you have shown yourselves to be innocent
in the matter. So then even though I wrote to you, it was not on
account of the one who did the wrong, or on account of the one who
suffered the wrong, but in order that your concern for us might be
made plain to you in the sight of God. For this reason we are
encouraged. And besides our encouragement, we rejoice even more
because of the joy of Titus, since his spirit has been refreshed
by all of you. For if I have boasted to him about you, I was not
put to shame. No, just as everything we said to you was true, so
our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth. And his heart
goes out to you all the more, as he remembers the obedience of
all of you, when you received him with fear and trembling.
I rejoice, because I have confidence in you in every respect. |
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2COR 9:6-7 |
Consider this: whoever
sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows
bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already
determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a
cheerful giver. |
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2COR 10:1-6 |
Now I myself, Paul, urge
you through the gentleness and clemency of Christ, I who am humble
when face to face with you, but brave toward you when absent, I
beg you that, when present, I may not have to be brave with that
confidence with which I intend to act boldly against some who
consider us as acting according to the flesh. For, although we
are in the flesh, we do not battle according to the flesh, for the
weapons of our battle are not of flesh but are enormously
powerful, capable of destroying fortresses. We destroy arguments
and every pretension raising itself against the knowledge of God,
and take every thought captive in obedience to Christ, and we are
ready to punish every disobedience, once your obedience is
complete. |
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2COR 10:12-18 |
Not that we dare to
class or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend
themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and
compare themselves with one another, they are without
understanding. But we will not boast beyond measure but will
keep to the limits God has apportioned us, namely, to reach even
to you. For we are not overreaching ourselves, as though we did
not reach you; we indeed first came to you with the gospel of
Christ. We are not boasting beyond measure, in other people's
labors; yet our hope is that, as your faith increases, our
influence among you may be greatly enlarged, within our proper
limits, so that we may preach the gospel even beyond you, not
boasting of work already done in another's sphere. "Whoever
boasts, should boast in the Lord." For it is not the one
who recommends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord
recommends. |
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2COR 11:2-15 |
For I am jealous of you
with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to
present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that,
as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be
corrupted from a sincere (and pure) commitment to Christ. For if
someone comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached,
or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received or
a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it
well enough. For I think that I am not in any way inferior to
these "superapostles." Even if I am untrained in
speaking, I am not so in knowledge; in every way we have made this
plain to you in all things. Did I make a mistake when I humbled
myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel
of God to you without charge? I plundered other churches by
accepting from them in order to minister to you. And when I was
with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers
who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. So I refrained and will
refrain from burdening you in any way. By the truth of Christ in
me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of
Achaia. And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! And
what I do I will continue to do, in order to end this pretext of
those who seek a pretext for being regarded as we are in the
mission of which they boast. For such people are false apostles,
deceitful workers, who masquerade as apostles of Christ. And no
wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. So it is
not strange that his ministers also masquerade as ministers of
righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. |
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2COR 12:6-10 |
Although if I should
wish to boast, I would not be foolish, for I would be telling the
truth. But I refrain, so that no one may think more of me than
what he sees in me or hears from me because of the abundance of
the revelations. Therefore, that I might not become too elated,
a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat
me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I begged the
Lord about this, that it might leave me, but he said to me,
"My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in
weakness." I will rather boast most gladly of my
weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore,
I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions,
and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then
I am strong. |
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2COR 12:20-21 |
For I fear that when
I come I may find you not such as I wish, and that you may find me
not as you wish; that there may be rivalry, jealousy, fury,
selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. I fear that
when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may
have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not
repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness they
practiced. |
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2COR 13:1-11 |
This third time I am
coming to you. "On the testimony of two or three witnesses a
fact shall be established." I warned those who sinned
earlier and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I
did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will
not be lenient, since you are looking for proof of Christ speaking
in me. He is not weak toward you but powerful in you. For
indeed he was crucified out of weakness, but he lives by the power
of God. So also we are weak in him, but toward you we shall live
with him by the power of God. Examine yourselves to see whether
you are living in faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that
Jesus Christ is in you? - unless, of course, you fail the test. I
hope you will discover that we have not failed. But we pray to
God that you may not do evil, not that we may appear to have
passed the test but that you may do what is right, even though we
may seem to have failed. For we cannot do anything against the
truth, but only for the truth. For we rejoice when we are weak
but you are strong. What we pray for is your improvement. I am
writing this while I am away, so that when I come I may not have
to be severe in virtue of the authority that the Lord has given me
to build up and not to tear down. Finally, brothers, rejoice. Mend
your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in
peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. |
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GAL 1:1-5 |
Paul, an apostle not
from human beings nor through a human being but through Jesus
Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead, and all
the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia: grace to
you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ, who gave himself for our sins that he might rescue us from
the present evil age in accord with the will of our God
and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. |
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GAL 1:6-12 |
I am amazed that you
are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by (the) grace (of
Christ) for a different gospel (not that there is another). But
there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the
gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should
preach (to you) a gospel other than the one that we preached to
you, let that one be accursed! As we have said before, and now I
say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one
that you received, let that one be accursed! Am I now currying
favor with human beings or God? Or am I seeking to please people?
If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of
Christ. Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel
preached by me is not of human origin. For I did not receive it
from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a
revelation of Jesus Christ. |
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GAL 2:15-21 |
We, who are Jews by
nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles, (yet) who know
that a person is not justified by works of the law but through
faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus that
we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the
law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. But
if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found
to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Of course not!
But if I am building up again those things that I tore down, then
I show myself to be a transgressor. For through the law I died
to the law, that I might live for God. I have been crucified with
Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar
as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who
has loved me and given himself up for me. I do not nullify the
grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then
Christ died for nothing. |
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GAL 3:1-4 |
O stupid Galatians!
Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly
portrayed as crucified? I want to learn only this from you:
did you receive the Spirit from works of the law, or from faith in
what you heard? Are you so stupid? After beginning with the
Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Did you experience so
many things in vain? - if indeed it was in vain. |
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GAL 4:8-11 |
At a time when you
did not know God, you became slaves to things that by nature are
not gods; but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be
known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and
destitute elemental powers? Do you want to be slaves to them all
over again? You are observing days, months, seasons, and
years. I am afraid on your account that perhaps I have labored
for you in vain. |
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GAL 4:12-31 |
I implore you, brothers,
be as I am, because I have also become as you are. You did me no
wrong; you know that it was because of a physical illness that I
originally preached the gospel to you, and you did not show
disdain or contempt because of the trial caused you by my physical
condition, but rather you received me as an angel of God, as
Christ Jesus. Where now is that blessedness of yours? Indeed, I
can testify to you that, if it had been possible, you would have
torn out your eyes and given them to me. So now have I become your
enemy by telling you the truth? They show interest in you, but
not in a good way; they want to isolate you, so that you may show
interest in them. Now it is good to be shown interest for good
reason at all times, and not only when I am with you. My children,
for whom I am again in labor until Christ be formed in you! I
would like to be with you now and to change my tone, for I am
perplexed because of you. Tell me, you who want to be under the
law, do you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham
had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn
woman. The son of the slave woman was born naturally, the son of
the freeborn through a promise. Now this is an allegory. These
women represent two covenants. One was from Mount Sinai, bearing
children for slavery; this is Hagar. Hagar represents Sinai, a
mountain in Arabia; it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for
she is in slavery along with her children. But the Jerusalem above
is freeborn, and she is our mother. For it is written:
"Rejoice, you barren one who bore no children; break forth
and shout, you who were not in labor; for more numerous are the
children of the deserted one than of her who has a husband."
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise. But
just as then the child of the flesh persecuted the child of the
spirit, it is the same now. But what does the scripture say?
"Drive out the slave woman and her son! For the son of the
slave woman shall not share the inheritance with the son" of
the freeborn. Therefore, brothers, we are children not of the
slave woman but of the freeborn woman. |
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GAL 5:1-6 |
For freedom Christ set
us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of
slavery. It is I, Paul, who am telling you that if you have
yourselves circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. Once
again I declare to every man who has himself circumcised that he
is bound to observe the entire law. You are separated from Christ,
you who are trying to be justified by law; you have fallen from
grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we await the hope of
righteousness. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through
love. |
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GAL 5:7-12 |
You were running
well; who hindered you from following (the) truth? That
enticement does not come from the one who called you. A little
yeast leavens the whole batch of dough. I am confident of you
in the Lord that you will not take a different view, and that the
one who is troubling you will bear the condemnation, whoever
he may be. As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching
circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the
stumbling block of the cross has been abolished. Would that
those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves! |
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GAL 5:13-26 |
For you were called
for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom as an
opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, "You
shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you go on
biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed
by one another. I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will
certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh. For the flesh
has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you
want. But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the
law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality,
impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry,
jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions,
factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like.
I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things
will not inherit the kingdom of God. In contrast, the fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no
law. Now those who belong to Christ (Jesus) have crucified their
flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let
us also follow the Spirit. Let us not be conceited, provoking
one another, envious of one another. |
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GAL 6:1-10 |
Brothers, even if a
person is caught in some transgression, you who are spiritual
should correct that one in a gentle spirit, looking to yourself,
so that you also may not be tempted. Bear one another's burdens,
and so you will fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks
he is something when he is nothing, he is deluding himself.
Each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason
to boast with regard to himself alone, and not with regard to
someone else; for each will bear his own load. One who is being
instructed in the word should share all good things with his
instructor. Make no mistake: God is not mocked, for a person
will reap only what he sows, because the one who sows for his
flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who
sows for the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit. Let
us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our
harvest, if we do not give up. So then, while we have
the opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those
who belong to the family of the faith. |
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EPH 2:1-7 |
You were dead in your
transgressions and sins in which you once lived following the age
of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the
spirit that is now at work in the disobedient. All of us once
lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes
of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of
wrath, like the rest. But God, who is rich in mercy, because
of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our
transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have
been saved), raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the
heavens in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show
the immeasurable riches of his grace in his kindness to us in
Christ Jesus. |
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EPH 4:7-32 |
But grace was given to
each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore,
it says: "He ascended on high and took prisoners captive; he
gave gifts to men." What does "he ascended" mean
except that he also descended into the lower (regions) of the
earth? The one who descended is also the one who ascended far
above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave
some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists,
others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the
work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all
attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to
mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ, so
that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along
by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their
cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming. Rather, living
the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the
head, Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together
by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each
part, brings about the body's growth and builds itself up in love.
So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer
live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds; darkened
in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their
ignorance, because of their hardness of heart, they have become
callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the
practice of every kind of impurity to excess. That is not how
you learned Christ, assuming that you have heard of him and were
taught in him, as truth is in Jesus, that you should put away
the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through
deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and
put on the new self, created in God's way in righteousness and
holiness of truth. Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the
truth, each one to his neighbor, for we are members one of
another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your
anger, and do not leave room for the devil. The thief must no
longer steal, but rather labor, doing honest work with his (own)
hands, so that he may have something to share with one in need. No
foul language should come out of your mouths, but only such as is
good for needed edification, that it may impart grace to those who
hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you
were sealed for the day of redemption. All bitterness, fury,
anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with
all malice. (And) be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving
one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. |
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EPH 5:1-5 |
So be imitators of God,
as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and
handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a
fragrant aroma. Immorality or any impurity or greed must not
even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones, no
obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but
instead, thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure
or greedy person, that is, an idolater, has any inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and of God. |
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EPH 5:6-20 |
Let no one deceive
you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of
God is coming upon the disobedient. So do not be associated with
them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the
Lord. Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of
goodness and righteousness and truth. Try to learn what is
pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the fruitless works of
darkness; rather expose them, for it is shameful even to mention
the things done by them in secret; but everything exposed by
the light becomes visible, for everything that becomes visible is
light. Therefore, it says: "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from
the dead, and Christ will give you light." Watch carefully
then how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise, making the
most of the opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore, do
not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will
of the Lord. And do not get drunk on wine, in which lies
debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one
another (in) psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and
playing to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks always and for
everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father. |
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EPH 5:22-33 |
Wives should be subordinate
to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his
wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior
of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives
should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and
handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the
bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the
church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish. So (also) husbands
should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his
wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather
nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church,
because we are members of his body. "For this reason a man
shall leave (his) father and (his) mother and be joined to his
wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This is a great
mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. In
any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the
wife should respect her husband. |
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EPH 6:5-9 |
Slaves, be obedient
to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of
heart, as to Christ, not only when being watched, as currying
favor, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the
heart, willingly serving the Lord and not human beings, knowing
that each will be requited from the Lord for whatever good he does,
whether he is slave or free. Masters, act in the same way toward
them, and stop bullying, knowing that both they and you have a
Master in heaven and that with him there is no partiality. |
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EPH 6:10-20 |
Finally, draw your
strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the
armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the
tactics of the devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood
but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world
rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the
heavens. Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able
to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold
your ground. So stand fast with your loins girded in truth,
clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in
readiness for the gospel of peace. In all circumstances, hold
faith as a shield, to quench all (the) flaming arrows of the evil
one. With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity
in the Spirit. To that end, be watchful with all perseverance
and supplication for all the holy ones and also for me, that
speech may be given me to open my mouth, to make known with
boldness the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in
chains, so that I may have the courage to speak as I must. |
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PHIL 1:27-30 |
Only, conduct
yourselves in a way worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that,
whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear news of you,
that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind struggling
together for the faith of the gospel, not intimidated in any way
by your opponents. This is proof to them of destruction, but of
your salvation. And this is God's doing. For to you has
been granted, for the sake of Christ, not only to believe in him
but also to suffer for him. Yours is the same struggle as you
saw in me and now hear about me. |
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PHIL 2:1-4 |
If there is any
encouragement in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in
the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being
of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking
one thing. Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory;
rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,
each looking out not for his own interests, but (also) everyone
for those of others. |
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PHIL 2:12-18 |
So then, my beloved,
obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but
all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with
fear and trembling. For God is the one who, for his good
purpose, works in you both to desire and to work. Do everything
without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and
innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a
crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like
lights in the world, as you hold on to the word of life, so
that my boast for the day of Christ may be that I did not run in
vain or labor in vain. But, even if I am poured out as a
libation upon the sacrificial service of your faith, I rejoice and
share my joy with all of you. In the same way you also should
rejoice and share your joy with me. |
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PHIL 3:2-16 |
Beware of the dogs!
Beware of the evil workers! Beware of the mutilation! For we
are the circumcision, we who worship through the Spirit of God,
who boast in Christ Jesus and do not put our confidence in flesh,
although I myself have grounds for confidence even in the flesh.
If anyone else thinks he can be confident in flesh, all the more
can I. Circumcised on the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of
the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrew parentage, in observance
of the law a Pharisee, in zeal I persecuted the church, in
righteousness based on the law I was blameless. (But) whatever
gains I had, these I have come to consider a loss because of
Christ. More than that, I even consider everything as a loss
because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For
his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider
them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him,
not having any righteousness of my own based on the law but that
which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God,
depending on faith to know him and the power of his resurrection
and (the) sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to his
death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the
dead. It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have
already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in
hope that I may possess it, since I have indeed been taken
possession of by Christ (Jesus). Brothers, I for my part do
not consider myself to have taken possession. Just one thing:
forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies
ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God's
upward calling, in Christ Jesus. Let us, then, who are
"perfectly mature" adopt this attitude. And if you have
a different attitude, this too God will reveal to you. Only, with
regard to what we have attained, continue on the same course. |
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PHIL 3:17-21 |
Join with others in
being imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who thus
conduct themselves according to the model you have in us. For
many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears,
conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is
destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their
"shame." Their minds are occupied with earthly things. But
our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He will change our lowly body to conform
with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to
bring all things into subjection to himself. |
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COL 1:21-23 |
And you who once were
alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds he has now
reconciled in his fleshly body through his death, to present you
holy, without blemish, and irreproachable before him, provided
that you persevere in the faith, firmly grounded, stable, and
not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which
has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I,
Paul, am a minister. |
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COL 1:24-29 |
Now I rejoice in my
sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is
lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which
is the church, of which I am a minister in accordance with God's
stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of
God, the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past. But
now it has been manifested to his holy ones, to whom God chose to
make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles; it is Christ in you, the hope for glory. It is he whom
we proclaim, admonishing everyone
and teaching everyone with
all wisdom, that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
For this I labor and struggle, in accord with the exercise of his
power working within me. |
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COL 2:4-8 |
I say this so that no
one may deceive you by specious arguments. For even if I am
absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing as I
observe your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
So, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted in
him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were
taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one captivate
you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human
tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world and not
according to Christ. |
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COL 2:18-20 |
Let no one disqualify
you, delighting in self-abasement and worship of angels, taking
his stand on visions, inflated without reason by his fleshly mind,
and not holding closely to the head, from whom the whole body,
supported and held together by its ligaments and bonds, achieves
the growth that comes from God. If you died with Christ to the
elemental powers of the world, why do you submit to regulations as
if you were still living in the world? |
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COL 3:5-17 |
Put to death, then,
the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion,
evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry. Because of these the
wrath of God is coming (upon the disobedient). By these you
too once conducted yourselves, when you lived in that way. But
now you must put them all away: anger, fury, malice, slander, and
obscene language out of your mouths. Stop lying to one another,
since you have taken off the old self with its practices and have
put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in
the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew,
circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free;
but Christ is all and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones,
holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility,
gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving
one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the
Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these
put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. And let the peace of
Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also
called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one
another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with
gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or
in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God the Father through him. |
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COL 3:18-21 |
Wives, be subordinate
to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord. Husbands, love your
wives, and avoid any bitterness toward them. Children, obey your
parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord. Fathers,
do not provoke your children, so they may not become discouraged. |
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COL 3:22-25 |
Slaves, obey your
human masters in everything, not only when being watched, as
currying favor, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for
others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due
payment of the inheritance; be slaves of the Lord Christ. For
the wrongdoer will receive recompense for the wrong he committed,
and there is no partiality. |
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