For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [ye show] toward all the saints,

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ with [a love] incorruptible.

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.