Encourage one another, therefore, and let each edify the other ??as indeed you are doing.

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

Now then, encourage one another with these words.

And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

the speaker his words of counsel; the contributor must be liberal, the superintendent must be in earnest, the sick visitor must be cheerful.

Now brothers, goodbye; mend your ways, listen to what I have told you, live in harmony, keep the peace; then the God of love and peace will be with you.

though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.

Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

I have had great joy and encouragement over your love, my brother, over the way you have refreshed the hearts of the saints.

On the other hand, he who prophesies addresses men in words that edify, encourage, and console them.

May the God who inspires stedfastness and encouragement grant you such harmony with one another, after Christ Jesus,

Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened.

For I do yearn to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift for your strengthening ??12 or, in other words, that I may be encouraged by meeting you, I by your faith and you by mine.

Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.

if it is practical service, let us mind our service; the teacher must mind his teaching,

converse with one another in the music of psalms, in hymns, and in songs of the spiritual life, praise the Lord heartily with words and music,

and my imprisonment has given the majority of the brotherhood greater confidence in the Lord to venture on speaking the word of God without being afraid.

Model yourself on the sound instruction you have had from me in the faith and love of Christ Jesus.

You can all prophesy quite well, one after another, so as to let all learn and all be encouraged.

but hold you to what you have been taught, hold to your convictions, remember who your teachers were,

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

Welcome one another, then, as Christ has welcomed yourselves, for the glory of God.

Then, by God's will, I shall gladly come to you and rest beside you.

and as Judas and Silas were themselves prophets, they encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many a counsel.

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

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

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ,

Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.

Then imitate me, I beg of you.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.