Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

Though

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

The

I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man.

but inside, in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle and modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare value.

Is

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and put on the new nature which is renewed in the likeness of its Creator for the knowledge of him.

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

Day by

give us our bread for the morrow day by day,

General references

It was in weakness and fear and with great trembling that I visited you;