as indeed you know how each one of you, as a father [to] his own children, we exhorted, and comforted [you], and imploring you,

Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

And working together [with Him], we also urge that you not receive the grace of God in vain.

Now I, Paul, myself appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who face to face [am] lowly among you, but when I am away am bold toward you.

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

rather on account of love I appeal to you--being such a one as Paul, the elder, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ--

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I begot in my bonds,

And I appeal to you, brothers, bear with the word of exhortation, for briefly I wrote to you.

For you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

But you did not thus learn Christ,

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we beseech you,

I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality.

I charge you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead in accordance with His appearing and His kingdom:

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

in order that you may walk decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

For I did not draw back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered unto you: that the Lord Jesus, during the night in which He was betrayed, took bread;

Now I made known to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

Only conduct yourselves worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat!

And to such [people] we command and urge by our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

that you would make your walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

And those that are in the flesh cannot please God.

And do not fashion yourselves after this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

that you should walk worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit and increasing in the full knowledge of God;

But without faith it is impossible to please [God], for it is necessary [for] the [one] approaching God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

But do not forget the doing of good and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

For indeed you do so toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you increase more and more,

But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare

But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go forth and shine, until the day has fully come.

Every branch in Me which does not bear fruit He takes away; and every [branch] which bears fruit He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all perception,

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

We are obligated to give thanks to God always for you, brothers, [and] rightfully so, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all increases towards one another,

But also [for] this very reason, making every effort, provide with your faith virtue, and with virtue knowledge,

and with godliness brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

For [he] who lacks these things is blind, being shortsighted, having forgotten the cleansing of his past sins.

but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.