¹⁹ I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

⁷ and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

⁵ but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

³ We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

² "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

³ You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have{TR adds "have labored and"} not grown weary.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

⁸ And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

⁶ 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;

¹⁴ Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

² Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

¹ 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.

² 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 don't have love, I am nothing.

³ If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

⁴ Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

⁵ doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

⁶ doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

¹⁴ They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

¹³ "I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

⁹ "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, That shines more and more until the perfect day.

⁹ Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.