¹⁹ I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.

⁷ and in `your' godliness brotherly kindness; and in `your' brotherly kindness love.

⁵ But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

³ We are bound to give thanks to God always to you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

² I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;

³ and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary.

⁴ But I have `this' against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him `be' the glory both now and for ever. Amen.

⁸ above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

⁶ But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also `to see' you;

¹⁴ and above all these things `put on' love, which is the bond of perfectness.

² Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every `branch' that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.

¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

² And if I have `the gift of' prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

³ And if I bestow all my goods to feed `the poor', and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

⁴ Love suffereth long, `and' is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

⁶ rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁸ Love never faileth: but whether `there be' prophecies, they shall be done away; whether `there be' tongues, they shall cease; whether `there be' knowledge, it shall be done away.

¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and green:

¹³ I know where thou dwellest, `even' where Satan's throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.

⁹ I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they art not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

⁹ Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.