And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

Day after day they resorted with one accord to the temple and broke bread together in their own homes; they ate with a glad and simple heart,

Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

In our one body we have a number of members, and the members have not all the same function; so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another.

contribute to needy saints, make a practice of hospitality.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves. Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name and nature, read more. praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man. May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith! May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,' by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God! Now to him who by the action of his power within us can do all things, aye far more than we ever ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever: Amen.

Do not forget beneficence and charity, either; these are the kind of sacrifices that are acceptable to God.

We are writing this to you that our own joy may be complete.

If we say, 'We have fellowship with him,' when we live and move in darkness, then we are lying, we are not practising the truth;

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;

They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.

The cup of blessing, which we bless, is that not participating in the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is that not participating in the body of Christ?

Look at the rites of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Spirit be with you all.

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

Have nothing to do with the fruitless enterprises of the darkness; rather expose them.

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,