Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord.

For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.”

Since many are boasting according to human standards, I too will boast.

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

but it is more vital for your sake that I remain in the body.

You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.

May glory be given to God our Father forever and ever. Amen.

Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.