What then was your blessedness? For I testify to you that if you were able, digging out your eyes, you would have given them to me.
And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial draw back.
For I testify to them that they have zeal to God, but not according to knowledge.
And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope, in power of the Holy Spirit.
through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we glory on the hope of the glory of God.
for I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,
Because I testify that according to their ability and beyond their ability, of their own accord.
that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.
and you did not despise my affliction, the one in my flesh, nor disdained it, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
So then have I become a hostile one to you speaking truth to you?
My children, for whom I again travail until Christ should be formed to you,
But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself and not in the other.
For I bear witness to him, that he has much zeal on your behalf, and the ones in Laodicea, and the ones in Hierapolis.
So yearning over you, we were wellpleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you had become beloved to us.
even esteem them most exceedingly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.