My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
Let all that you do be done in love.
Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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