¹⁵ What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

¹⁸ My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

¹³ and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

⁸ Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

¹³ For I testify about him, that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

⁴ But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--

¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

³ For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

¹³ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

² For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

² through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

⁶ Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

⁷ "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, Whose sins are covered.

⁸ Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

⁹ Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

¹³ Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.