²⁴ And ^(A)let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

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

Sacrifices Pleasing to God

13 Let ^(A)brotherly love continue.

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brothers. ^(A)Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love ^(B)serve one another.

¹⁶ Let ^(A)the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, ^(B)singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ^(C)with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

⁸ The saying is ^(A)trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful ^(B)to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.

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

¹² and may the Lord ^(A)make you increase and abound in love ^(B)for one another and for all, as we do for you, ¹³ so that he may ^(C)establish your hearts blameless in holiness before ^(D)our God and Father, at ^(E)the coming of our Lord Jesus ^(F)with all his saints.

^3 (A)Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.