Bible Verses About The Roman Empire

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

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,

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

And I thought it necessary Epaphroditus--my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need--to send unto you,

if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth--

to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

there salute you all the saints, and specially those of Caesar's house;

having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly--having triumphed over them in it.

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

The Lord Jesus Christ is with thy spirit; the grace is with you! Amen.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

He who is overcoming--this one--shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.