And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Let brotherly love continue.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
So the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;
Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
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