²⁴ not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

³ neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

¹ And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

²⁰ by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

⁸ `And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

⁹ and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

¹⁰ nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.

⁸ Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

⁹ whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

²⁴ and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

²⁵ in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

²⁶ and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

²⁵ and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,

²⁶ that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence again to you.

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

¹⁵ and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;

¹⁶ above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

⁷ for through faith we walk, not through sight --

⁵ for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

¹ And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

² for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

³ and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

⁵ Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

² through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

¹² and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

⁴⁹ and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,