That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

But grow in grace, and {in} the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him {be} glory both now and for ever. Amen.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and {in} all judgment; {judgment: or, sense}

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, {which is} your reasonable service.

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;

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all {men}, even as we {do} toward you:

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, {of the Lord: or, in the Lord}

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. {be...: Heb. add strength}

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have {free} course, and be glorified, even as {it is} with you: {have...: Gr. run}

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every {branch} that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, {so} walk ye in him:

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children,

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and {by} our gathering together unto him, {unto him: or, around him}

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; {flourishing: Heb. green}

Yet for love's sake I rather beseech {thee}, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. {labour: or, endeavour}

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

But the path of the just {is} as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

But ye have not so learned Christ;

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord {is}.

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the {same} night in which he was betrayed took bread:

But without faith {it is} impossible to please {him}: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and {that} he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence {am} base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: {in presence: or, in outward appearance}

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and {before} Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; {confession: or, profession}

We then, {as} workers together {with him}, beseech {you} also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

I charge {thee} therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

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. {preferring...: or, prejudice}

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, {which is} your reasonable service.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, {so} walk ye in him:

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

ALEPH. Blessed {are} the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. {undefiled: or, perfect, or, sincere}

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, {of the Lord: or, in the Lord}

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, {even} unto the end of the world. Amen.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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.

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord {is}.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and {that} there be no divisions among you; but {that} ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. {divisions: Gr. schisms}

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

[A Song of degrees.] Blessed {is} every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and {in} all judgment; {judgment: or, sense}

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

O love the LORD, all ye his saints: {for} the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach {them}, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth {it}; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,

Teach me to do thy will; for thou {art} my God: thy spirit {is} good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. {be...: or, faint not}

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive {it}, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make {you that ye shall} neither {be} barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. {barren: Gr. idle}

This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he {was} a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

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

That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

For this {is} good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have {free} course, and be glorified, even as {it is} with you: {have...: Gr. run}

For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received {them}, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. {labour: or, endeavour}

But sought to the {LORD} God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

Of these things put {them} in remembrance, charging {them} before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, {but} to the subverting of the hearers.

And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, {and} wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men {to} edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children,

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered {them} to you. {ordinances: or, traditions}

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, {even} the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed {them}.

If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

As also in all {his} epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as {they do} also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I {am} the LORD.

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;

Now these {are} the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make {them} know the statutes of God, and his laws. {one...: Heb. a man and his fellow}

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all {men}, even as we {do} toward you:

For our exhortation {was} not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed {is} not grievous, but for you {it is} safe.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.