examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?

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

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

that the fellowship of your faith may operate in a full knowledge of every good thing in you in Christ Jesus.

And abound

So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

that in much testing of trouble, the overflowing of their joy, and the depth of their poverty, abounded to the riches of their generosity.

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

rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

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

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

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

They

If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you.

For if we are out of our mind, it is to God; or if we are in our senses, it is for you.

Barren

Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

His lord answered and said to him, Evil and slothful servant! You knew that I reaped where I did not sow, and gathered where I did not scatter,

As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

In

Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

General references

You shall carefully keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.

By slothfulness the building decays; and through lowering of the hands the house leaks.

in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.