so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

Though

and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.

'But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

The

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

Is

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Day by

our appointed bread be giving us daily;

General references

and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;