Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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We remember before our God and Father(A) your work produced by faith,(B) your labor prompted by love,(C) and your endurance inspired by hope(D) in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.(A) But the greatest of these is love.(B)

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19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

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19 I know your deeds,(A) your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

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For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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For in Christ Jesus(A) neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.(B) The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.(C)

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11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

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11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you,(A) that our God may make you worthy(B) of his calling,(C) and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness(D) and your every deed prompted by faith.(E)

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24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

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24 For in this hope we were saved.(A) But hope that is seen is no hope at all.(B) Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.(C)

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For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands.(A) And his commands are not burdensome,(B)

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And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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Let us not become weary in doing good,(A) for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.(B)

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And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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All who have this hope in him purify themselves,(A) just as he is pure.(B)

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13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace(A) as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.(B)

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36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

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36 You need to persevere(A) so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(B)

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But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

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Timothy’s Encouraging Report

But Timothy(A) has just now come to us from you(B) and has brought good news about your faith and love.(C) He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you.(D)

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Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

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But since you excel in everything(A)—in faith, in speech, in knowledge,(B) in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you[a]—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

I am not commanding you,(C) but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. For you know the grace(D) of our Lord Jesus Christ,(E) that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor,(F) so that you through his poverty might become rich.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 8:7 Some manuscripts and in your love for us