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and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

not like those who do their work only when someone is watching—as people-pleasers—but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.

Clothe yourselves with the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

I thank my God every time I remember you.

For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of their destruction, but of your salvation—a sign which is from God.

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort—for the sake of his good pleasure—is God.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

In fact he became so ill that he nearly died. But God showed mercy to him—and not to him only, but also to me—so that I would not have grief on top of grief.

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials