For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,