IMPERISHABLE
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers and sisters, love one another deeply from the heart.
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
To Him Who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy, to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received tha promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.