For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Now if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

(for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),

of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Their Conversion

For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.

that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.