how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

His affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

And I know how such a man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows—

For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,

But that you also may know about my circumstances, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you.

For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me;

I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face,

Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.

For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers;

just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,

Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.

that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,

(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,

Now observe how great this man was to whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth of the choicest spoils.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?

For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth.

and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

And this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone.