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mind in the Lord. Yes, I beseech you also, faithful yoke-fellow, help those women who strove in the gospel with me, with Clement and the rest of my co-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to all men; the Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but with all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And may the peace of God which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

5 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are reputable, if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, consider these things; and what you learned and received and heard and knew in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

6 But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began again to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no opportunity [to serve me]. Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented. I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to abound; in every thing and in all conditions I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer want. I endure all things with him that strengthens me. But you did well to communicate with my affliction, And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only; for even in Thessalonica and once and again you sent to my need. Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to your account. But I have all things and abound, I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. And God shall fully supply all your need, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be the glory forever and ever; amen.

7 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me salute you. All the saints salute you, especially those of Cæsar's family. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

THE EPISTLE TO TITUS.

PHILIPPI, A.d. 64.

A CHARGE TO TITUS IN RESPECT TO HIS MINISTRY.

1 PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety, for the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages, but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God, to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

2 For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you, if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination. For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain, but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying, holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict. For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.

3 A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers. This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth. To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.

4 Speak things which become sound teaching. That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in

patience; that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good, that they may instruct the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, sober, pure, fond of home, kind, subject to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

5 In like manner exhort the younger to be of a sound mind, presenting yourself as an example of good works in all things, in teaching [exhibiting] integrity, gravity, sound argument not to be condemned, that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of us. Let servants be subject to their masters, please them in all things, not contradicting, not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in all things.

6 For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life, looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

7 These things speak, and exhort, and reprove with all authority; let no man despise you. Admonish them to be subject to principalities, to powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men. For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another; but when the goodness and philanthropy of the Saviour our God appeared, not by works of righteousness which we did but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that having been justified by his grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. The word is true, and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For these things are honorable and useful to men. But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofit

able and vain. A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject, knowing that such a one is subverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

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8 When I send you Artemas, or Tychicus, make haste to come to me at Nicopolis; for there I have determined to spend the winSend forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos with diligence, and let nothing be wanting to them; and let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary purposes, that they may not be unfruitful. All who are with me salute you. Salute those who love us in the faith. The grace be with you all.

FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY.

PHILIPPI, A.D. 65.

CHAPTER I.

A CHARGE TO TIMOTHY CONCERNING THE GOSPEL, PUBLIC PRAYER, AND THE DUTIES OF WOMEN.

1 PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope, to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.] But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned, which some having missed turned aside to vain words, desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions. But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully; knowing this, that a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and disorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men, fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have

been intrusted. And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry, who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief; and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief; but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal. And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen.

3 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service, having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith; of whom are Hymenæus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

4 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men, for kings and all in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives in all piety and sanctity. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who wishes all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of truth. For there is one God, and one mediator of God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, a testimony for its own times, of which I was made a herald and an apostle, I speak the truth, I lie not, of nations in faith and truth.

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5 I wish also that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputations; and in like manner also, that women in becoming apparel with modesty and sobriety adorn themselves, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, but with good works, which become women professing godliness. Let a woman learn quietly in all subjection; but I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man, but to be quiet. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived; but the woman being deceived fell into transgression; but she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.

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