love
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;
but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even] Christ,
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
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.
for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

