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And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,

if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

rooted and builded up in him, and stablished in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God–ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort [you] concerning your faith;

For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you;

for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

We are bound to give thanks to God alway for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power;