I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first.

"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.

I know your persecution and your poverty??ut you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is; and yet you are holding fast my name, and you have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was slain among you, where Satan has his dwelling.

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Summary

I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

Patience

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Charity

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.
Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.
But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.
I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.
Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.
Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.
and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

Patience

You are holding fast, and have borne up for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

The last

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.
But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

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Blessed is that slave whom his Master, when he comes, shall find so doing.
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