Only let your manner of life be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that publish ye upon the house-tops.

Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess me before men, him will the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.

But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth, say, Come. And let him that is thirsty, come: And whoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

The word

It is the spirit that reviveth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

Study to show thyself approved to God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life;

That i may

That your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.

As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

That i have

Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one that beateth the air:

And I went by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them who were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run in vain.

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

General references

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

That your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.