Philippians 1:8

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

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;

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

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

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

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?

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.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

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

My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Be diligent to come to me soon,

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

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

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

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?

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.