And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you.
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
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