and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do:

And so we shall be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do.

See to it that no one ever repays another with evil for evil; but always seek opportunities of doing good both to one another and to all the world.