Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
May the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rejoice always,
and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.
Only let us hold true to what we have attained.
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”
But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.
that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”
And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart. Get up; he is calling you.”
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.”
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
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