But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

I pray that ¹  according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this ¹  will be rewarded by the Lord.

We proclaim him by instructing ¹  and teaching ²  all people ³  with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature ⁴  in Christ.

We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person ¹  and make up what may be lacking in your faith.

But you, as a person dedicated to God, ¹  keep away from all that. ²  Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

And see to it that no one becomes ¹  an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. ² 

But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow. ¹ 

For if someone ¹  comes into your assembly ²  wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness. ¹ 

but the inner person ¹  of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

Although these false teachers promise ¹  such people ²  freedom, they themselves are enslaved to ³  immorality. ⁴  For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved. ⁵ 

But whoever obeys his ¹  word, truly in this person ²  the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains ¹  forever.

Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also. ¹ 

Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that ¹  Jesus is the Son of God?

If ¹  anyone’s name ²  was not found written in the book of life, that person ³  was thrown into the lake of fire.

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.” ¹ 

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. ¹