Always in all my prayers making supplication for you all, with joy;
Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you all; making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,
I was exceeding glad, that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you;
Fulfil ye my joy, that you may be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment.
For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.
For though I be absent in body, yet in spirit I am with you; rejoicing, and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith which is in Christ.
Therefore, my dearly beloved brethren, and most desired, my joy and my crown; so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;
So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance.
I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance.
And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.