^19 (A)“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.

⁵ The aim of our charge is love ^(A)that issues from a pure heart and ^(B)a good conscience and ^(C)a sincere faith.

⁷ and godliness ^(A)with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection ^(B)with love.

Thanksgiving

^3 (A)We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers,^[a] as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

^2 (A)Every branch in me that does not bear fruit ^(B)he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, ^(C)that it may bear more fruit.

^2 (A)“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but ^(B)have tested those ^(C)who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. ³ I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up ^(D)for my name's sake, and you ^(E)have not grown weary. ⁴ But I have this against you, that you have abandoned ^(F)the love you had at first.

¹⁸ But ^(A)grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ^(B)To him be the glory both now and to the day of ^(C)eternity. Amen.

⁸ Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since ^(A)love covers a multitude of sins.

Timothy's Encouraging Report

⁶ But ^(A)now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of ^(B)your faith and love and reported ^(C)that you always remember us kindly and ^(D)long to see us, as we long to see you—