As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

Beware that no one rob you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the traditions of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn out from the dead, that in all things He may be preeminent.

I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,

But even if we, or an angel from Heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

Behold, I Paul say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

You have become cut off from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by Law; you have fallen from grace.

who desires all men to be saved and to come to a full true knowledge of the truth.

who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head, Christ,

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Your eyes saw my embryo, and in Your book I was enrolled, and all my days had been preordained, when as yet there was nothing.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is dried up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full true knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

Now the multitude of those believing were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,

so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

Now I exhort you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be completely fitted together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the fellowship of the blood of Christ. The bread which we break, is it not the fellowship of the body of Christ.

For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.

For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

For also the body is not one member but many.

And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He intended.

But now indeed there are many members, but yet one body.

No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given more abundant honor to that part which is lacking,

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Only, let your conduct be 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 firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Let each of you not look out for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Finally, all of you be of one mind, sympathetic; loving the brothers, be tenderhearted, be kind;

that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing into the full true knowledge of God;

I planted, Apollos watered, but God made it grow.

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you,

and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you abound more and more;

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,

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