²⁵ not giving up meeting together,^(A) as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another^(B)—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.^(C)

² Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another^(A) in love.^(B)

²¹ Through him you believe in God,^(A) who raised him from the dead^(B) and glorified him,^(C) and so your faith and hope^(D) are in God.

²² Now that you have purified^(E) yourselves by obeying^(F) the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply,^(G) from the heart.^{[a] 23} For you have been born again,^(H) not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,^(I) through the living and enduring word of God.^(J)

²⁷ And he who searches our hearts^(A) knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes^(B) for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.