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

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

So when we could bear it no longer, we decided to stay on in Athens alone.

For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Greet all the brothers and sisters with a holy kiss.

holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters – with complete purity.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.

when they see your pure and reverent conduct.

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,