¹⁹ I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.

⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

⁵ But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

³ It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;

² I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

³ And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.

¹⁸ But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

⁸ And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

⁶ But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

¹⁴ And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

¹ If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

⁴ Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

⁵ Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

⁶ It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;

⁷ Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

⁸ Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

¹⁴ They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;

¹³ I have knowledge that your living-place is where Satan has his seat: and you are true to my name, and were not turned away from your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my true witness, who was put to death among you, where Satan has his place.

⁹ I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

⁹ Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.