by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.”
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.
because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
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, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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