The greatest among you will be your servant.

Everything you do should be done in love.

Grace be with you all.

“But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

By your endurance you will gain your lives.

Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.

because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.

Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

Look, your house is left to you desolate!

Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

when they see your pure and reverent conduct.

And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, for whoever is not against you is for you.”

But when these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”