Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that is in you toward Christ Jesus;

And abound

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.

because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;

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

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

They

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

for whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; whether we be of sound mind -- it is to you,

Barren

Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

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

'And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

In

Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!

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ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,

By slothfulness is the wall brought low, And by idleness of the hands doth the house drop.

To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.