Ephesians 1:15

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

Let brotherly love continue.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;