⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;^(A) apart from me you can do nothing.

¹⁰ Be devoted to one another in love.^(A) Honor one another above yourselves.^(B)

⁴ There is one body^(A) and one Spirit,^(B) just as you were called to one hope when you were called^(C);

⁵ one Lord,^(A) one faith, one baptism;

⁴⁸ But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ ⁴⁹ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.^{(A) 50} The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. ⁵¹ He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.^(B)

Do Everything Without Grumbling

¹² Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,^(A)

¹³ for it is God who works in you^(A) to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.^(B)