One should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.

Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

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

We love because he loved us first.

When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!

and from Jesus Christ – the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

They said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

And aren’t all his sisters here with us? Where did he get all this?”

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’