Titus – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

1:3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

1:4 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

1:5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you—

1:6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

1:7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

1:8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

1:9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

1:10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

1:11 whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

1:12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

1:13 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

1:14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

1:15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

1:16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

2 Timothy – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

1:2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1:3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

1:4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

1:5 having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also.

1:6 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

1:7 For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

1:8 Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

1:9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

1:10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

1:11 For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

1:12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

1:13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1:14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

1:15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

1:16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

1:17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me

1:18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

1 Timothy – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

1:2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1:3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

1:4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.

1:5 But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

1:6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.

1:8 But we know that the law is good if a person uses it lawfully,

1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

1:11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

1:12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,

1:13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1:14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1:15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

1:16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1:18 I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

1:19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

1:20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

2 Thessalonians – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

1:4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

1:5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

1:6 For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

1:7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

1:8 punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

1:9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

1:10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

1:11 To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

1:12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:2 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,

1:3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

1:4 We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

1:5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

1:6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

1:7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

1:8 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not say anything.

1:9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

1:10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Colossians – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

1:2 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

1:4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

1:5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

1:6 which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

1:7 even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

1:8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

1:9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

1:10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

1:11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

1:14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

1:16 For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

1:18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

1:19 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

1:21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

1:22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

1:23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

1:25 of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

1:26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

1:27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

1:28 We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

1:29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Philippians – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 I thank my God whenever I remember you,

1:4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

1:5 for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

1:6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

1:7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

1:8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

1:9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

1:10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

1:11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

1:12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

1:13 so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

1:14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

1:16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

1:17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

1:18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

1:19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

1:20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

1:22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

1:23 But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

1:24 Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

1:25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

1:26 that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

1:27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

1:28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

1:29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

1:30 having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

Ephesians – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

1:5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.

1:7 In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

1:8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

1:9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

1:10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

1:11 We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

1:12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

1:13 In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

1:14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

1:15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you and the love which you have toward all the saints,

1:16 don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

1:20 which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

1:21 far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

1:22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Galatians – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

1:2 and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

1:3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

1:4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

1:5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

1:6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

1:7 but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

1:8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

1:9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

1:11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

1:12 For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

1:14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

1:15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,

1:16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

1:17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

1:19 But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

1:20 Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

1:21 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

1:22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

1:23 but they only heard, “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

1:24 So they glorified God in me.

2 Corinthians – Chapter 1

 

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

1:4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

1:6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

1:7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

1:8 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

1:9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

1:10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,

1:11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

1:12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

1:13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end—

1:14 as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

1:15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

1:16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

1:17 When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

1:18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

1:20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

1:21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

1:22 who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

1:23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth.

1:24 We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.