make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, to walk worthily of the Lord, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all stedfastness and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks unto the Father, who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

COLOSSIANS II

II Corinthians xi. Galatians v. Hebrews xiii

Take heed, brethren, lest by any means your minds be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ. Let no one rob you of your prize, priding himself on his humility and his worship of the angels, and taking his stand on the visions he has seen, being vainly puffed up by his fleshy mind.

This I say, that no man may delude you with persuasiveness of speech, after the precepts and doctrines of men; but that you may continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel. Beware lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, and not after Christ. Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by things wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

For in Christ Jesus nought availeth anything, save faith working through love.

Stand fast therefore in the freedom wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not entangled in any yoke of bondage. For, brethren, ye were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

COLOSSIANS III

Romans vi. Ephesians ii, iv

Now you, who were dead through your trespasses and sins, wherein ye once walked according to the fashion of this world, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, hath God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, made alive together with Christ, and raised up with him, and made to sit with him in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus. Wherefore if ye have been raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. Let not sin reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God; that henceforth you may walk in newness of life.

Put away therefore, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit; and be ye re

newed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man that is after God, created in righteousness and holiness of truth. Do ye now therefore put all these away: anger, malice, railing, shameful speaking; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him.

Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of the Lord dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another. And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.

TO THE THESSALONIANS

I THESSALONIANS I, II, IV, V
II Thessalonians i

We give thanks to God always for you, making mention of you in our prayers; remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and stedfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; knowing how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in much fulness; so that ye became an ensample to all that believe. For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, so that we need not to speak anything. For in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth: how ye turned from idols to serve the living and true God. And for this cause thank we God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

And we give thanks to God always for you, brethren, that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth; so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith. And we beseech you, and exhort you, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, that ye abound more and more. But concerning love of the brethren, ye have no need that one

write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; yea, indeed ye do it. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound yet more and more; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God. And to this end we pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power.

Finally, comfort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do. Be at peace among yourselves. Admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, strengthen the weak, be longsuffering toward all. See that none render unto any evil for evil; but alway follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all. Rejoice alway; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward. Quench not the Spirit; despise not prophesyings; prove all things; hold fast that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body. be preserved entire, without blame in the sight of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I THESSALONIANS IV, V

Romans viii, xiv. I Corinthians ii. II Corinthians iv, v. II Thessalonians ii

Now we would not have you ignorant concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not as they that have no hope. For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtain