examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?

For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;

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

in such sort that thy participation in the faith should become operative in the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in us towards Christ Jesus.

And abound

So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their free-hearted liberality.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,

rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

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

But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

They

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.

For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or are sober, it is for you.

Barren

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle;

And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered;

as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

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Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

General references

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

By much sloth fulness the framework falleth in; and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth.

in piety and righteousness before him all our days.