American Standard Version of 1901
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{Greek: lords.}Masters, render unto your {Greek: Bondservants.}servants that which is just and {Greek: equality.}equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, {Greek: buying up the opportunity.}redeeming the time.
{Or, Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not}Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
for a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
Now when I came to Troas for the {Greek: good tidings: see marginal note on Matthew 4:23.}gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.
Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom;And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil;But the fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident.
abstain from every form of evil.