For indeed you do so toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you increase more and more,

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."

Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Now concerning brotherly love you have no need [for me] to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

For indeed you do so toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you increase more and more,

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all perception,

We are obligated to give thanks to God always for you, brothers, [and] rightfully so, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all increases towards one another,

See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue that which is good, both for one another and for all.

Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, thus also you do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

Owe nothing to no one, except to love one another, for he who loves one another has fulfilled the law.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become [as] sounding brass or a clashing cymbal.

And though I give away all my possessions to feed [the poor], and though I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

does not behave disgracefully, does not seek its own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Now we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of the child.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

For you, brothers were called to freedom; only do not use freedom for an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in [this]: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

and with godliness brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother having need, and shuts off his compassion towards him, how does the love of God abide in him?

And in this we know that we are from the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; and everyone that loves has been born of God and knows God.

By this the love of God is manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, in order that we might live through Him.

Beloved, if in this way God loved us, indeed we ought to love one another.

(By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.)

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

In this way longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.