Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

And I wrote this very thing to you, that, when I came, I should not have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

Therefore I rejoice that I have confidence in you in everything.

And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, because of the great confidence which we have in you.

I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he may be.

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it unto the day of Jesus Christ;

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the teaching which you received from us.

Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.

eternal life to those who steadfastly doing good, seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility;

For I will not dare to speak of anything which Christ has not accomplished through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles in word and deed;

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

And his affections are greater for you as he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your salvation with fear and trembling;

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you abound more and more;