And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love fo
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with t
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we inspi
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one
Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of
But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reve
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have
He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his fie
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.