²⁴ And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.

¹⁸ Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.^(A)

Service Well-Pleasing to God

13 Let mutual affection continue.

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence,^[a] but through love become enslaved to one another.^(A)

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ^[a] dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.^[b](A)

⁸ The saying is sure.

I desire that you insist on these things, so that those who have come to believe in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works; these things are excellent and profitable to everyone.^(A)

¹² And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.^{(A) 13} And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.^[a](B)

¹⁸ They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share,^(A)

³ Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them, those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.^[a]