Study Desk

As for us, friends, when we were separated from you for a little while—not in our thoughts, of course, but only in body—how we missed you and how hard we tried to see you again!

We wanted to return to you. I myself tried to go back more than once, but Satan would not let us.

God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness.

So then, whoever rejects this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

But you, friends, are not in the darkness, and the Day should not take you by surprise like a thief.

But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet.

God did not choose us to suffer his anger, but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people.

The Mysterious Wickedness is already at work, but what is going to happen will not happen until the one who holds it back is taken out of the way.

Then the Wicked One will be revealed, but when the Lord Jesus comes, he will kill him with the breath from his mouth and destroy him with his dazzling presence.

The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and keep you safe from the Evil One.

But you, friends, must not become tired of doing good.

But do not treat them as enemies; instead, warn them as believers.

They want to be teachers of God's law, but they do not understand their own words or the matters about which they speak with so much confidence.

It must be remembered, of course, that laws are made, not for good people, but for lawbreakers and criminals, for the godless and sinful, for those who are not religious or spiritual, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

even though in the past I spoke evil of him and persecuted and insulted him. But God was merciful to me because I did not yet have faith and so did not know what I was doing.

but God was merciful to me in order that Christ Jesus might show his full patience in dealing with me, the worst of sinners, as an example for all those who would later believe in him and receive eternal life.

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who claim to be religious.

But a woman will be saved through having children, if she perseveres in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.