1 Corinthians 16:21

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write.

Grace be with you all. Amen.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all Yahweh’s words, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.

Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I remained there with the kings of Persia.

Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely.”

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.