since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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.
For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more,
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
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