in all my prayers for you all I always pray with a sense of joy
We always thank God for you all when we mention you constantly in our prayers,
I was overjoyed to find some of your children leading the true Life, as we were commanded to do by the Father.
God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers,
I pray you to give me the utter joy of knowing you are living in harmony, with the same feelings of love, with one heart and soul,
I have had great joy and encouragement over your love, my brother, over the way you have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
for although I am absent in body I am with you in spirit, and it is a joy to note your steadiness and the solid front of your faith in Christ.
So then, my brothers, for whom I cherish love and longing, my joy and crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, O my beloved.
For many — as I have often told you and tell you now with tears — many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
So, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a single sinner who repents."
So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.
All night and day among the tombs and the hills he shrieked and gashed himself with stones.