For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.

and called you to it through our preaching of the good news, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct,

For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him.

The grace

Why, we believe that it is by the mercy of the Lord Jesus that we are saved just as they are."

by whom we have been introduced through faith to the favor of God that we now enjoy, and let us glory in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

and the blessing of our Lord has been given me in the greatest abundance, together with faith and love that union with Christ Jesus brings.

So you, my son, must find strength in the blessing that comes through Christ Jesus.

The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ be with his people.

Unto

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

For when somebody comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one I preached, or you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!