We should always give thanks to God for y’all, siblings, and rightly so, because y’all’s faith is flourishing and the love y’all have toward one another keeps growing,
Anyone who says, “I love God,” but hates their sibling, is a liar. For whoever doesn’t love their sibling whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it starts with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the gospel of God?
By faith, Abraham when he was called, obeyed by going to a place where he would later receive an inheritance. He set out, without knowing where he was going.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?
For God is not unjust. Hᴇ will not forget y’all’s work and the love y’all have shown toward ʜɪꜱ name by serving the saints and continuing to serve them.
In the same way, wives, submit to your own husbands, so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,
But we should always give thanks to God for y’all, siblings beloved by the Lord, because God chose y’all from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth.
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be multiplied to y’all.
who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark, a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water,