Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

Therefore we ought to support such people, so that we become coworkers in cooperation with the truth.

But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.