That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: