| Chapter 3 |
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Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, |
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of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men, |
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for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another; |
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and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear |
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(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, |
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which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, |
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that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during. |
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Stedfast is the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men, |
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and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain. |
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A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting, |
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having known that he hath been subverted who is such, and doth sin, being self-condemned. |
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When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis, for there to winter I have determined. |
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Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking, |
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and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful. |
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Salute thee do all those with me; salute those loving us in faith; the grace is with you all! |