What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.
and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,
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.
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.” Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.
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