<t /><p class="bodytext">Finally, pray for us, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> that the Lord&#8217;s message<n id="2" /> may spread quickly and be honored<n id="3" /> as in fact it was among you,

<p class="bodytext">By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.<n id="2" />

I<n id="1" /> have had great joy and encouragement because<n id="2" /> of your love, for the hearts<n id="3" /> of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.p>

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin,<n id="1" /> and so<n id="2" /> he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters!<n id="1" /> Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

<t /><p class="bodytext">What good is it, my brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith<n id="2" /> save him?<n id="3" />

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!<n id="2" />

Therefore, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> make every effort to be sure of your calling and election.<n id="2" /> For by doing this<n id="3" /> you will never<n id="4" /> stumble into sin.<n id="5" />

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation,<n id="1" /> just as also our dear brother Paul<n id="2" /> wrote to you,<n id="3" /> according to the wisdom given to him,

We know that<n id="1" /> we have crossed over<n id="2" /> from death to life<n id="3" /> because<n id="4" /> we love our fellow Christians.<n id="5" /> The one who does not love remains in death.<n id="6" />

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian<n id="1" /> is a murderer,<n id="2" /> and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing<n id="3" /> in him.

We have come to know love by this:<n id="1" /> that Jesus<n id="2" /> laid down<n id="3" /> his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that<n id="1" /> the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian<n id="2" /> too.

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother<n id="1" /> will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults<n id="2" /> a brother will be brought before<n id="3" /> the council,<n id="4" /> and whoever says &#8216;Fool&#8217;<n id="5" /> will be sent<n id="6" /> to fiery hell.<n id="7" />

<p class="bodytext">If anyone says<n id="1" /> &#8220;I love God&#8221; and yet<n id="2" /> hates his fellow Christian,<n id="3" /> he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian<n id="4" /> whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.<n id="5" />

Or how can you say<n id="1" /> to your brother, &#8216;Let me remove the speck from your eye,&#8217; while there is a beam in your own?

Isn&#8217;t this the carpenter&#8217;s son? Isn&#8217;t his mother named Mary?<n id="1" /> And aren&#8217;t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much<n id="1" /> and will inherit eternal life.

Isn&#8217;t this the carpenter, the son<n id="1" /> of Mary<n id="2" /> and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren&#8217;t his sisters here with us?&#8221; And so they took offense at him.

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip&#8217;s wife, because Herod<n id="1" /> had married her.