For the rest then, brothers, we beg you and we exhort in the Lord Jesus, even as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more.
And I myself, Paul, call on you through the meekness and gentleness of Christ I, who indeed according to face am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you;
For the rest, brothers, rejoice! Perfect yourselves; encourage yourselves, think the same thing, be at peace; and the God of love and of peace will be with you.
Brothers, if a man is taken in some deviation, you, the spiritual ones, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, that you not also be tempted.
Only conduct yourself worthily of the gospel of Christ, so that whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear the things concerning you, that you stand fast in one spirit and one soul, striving together in the faith of the gospel,
Brothers, we ought always to give thanks to God about you, even as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of all of you multiplies toward one another,
I solemnly testify before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect an- gels, that you should guard these things without pre-judgment, doing nothing by way of partiality.
But without faith it is impossible to be pleasing to God. For it is necessary for the one drawing near to God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to the ones seeking Him out.