For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.