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| 3:1 |
Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,
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| 3:2 |
of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,
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| 3:3 |
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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| 3:4 |
and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear
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| 3:5 |
(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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| 3:6 |
which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,
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| 3:7 |
that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.
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| 3:8 |
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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| 3:9 |
and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.
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| 3:10 |
A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,
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| 3:11 |
having known that he hath been subverted who [is] such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.
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| 3:12 |
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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| 3:13 |
Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,
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| 3:14 |
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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| 3:15 |
Salute thee do all those with me; salute those loving us in faith; the grace [is] with you all!
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