Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

So that the mutual participation of thy faith might be effective in acknowledgment of every good in you to Christ Jesus.

And abound

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.

That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.

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

Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.

Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:

Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;

They

If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.

For whether we be beside ourselves, to God: or be of sound mind, to you.

Barren

Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and the soul of sloth shall hunger.

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

And his lord having answered, said to him, O evil and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I scattered not:

In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord;

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.

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May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

General references

Watching, ye shall watch the commands of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his laws that he commanded thee.

By sloth the frame work will pine away; and by the letting down of the hands, the house will drop.

To serve him in sanctity and justice before him all the days of our life.