[NIV] Say to him: 'Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!

[NIV] Instead, we were like young children among you. Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,

[NIV] So it is with you. Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church.

[NIV] Instead, we were like young children among you. Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,

[NIV] The Lord's hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

[NIV] During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.

[NIV] Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin.

[NIV] "Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

[NIV] Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

[NIV] Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

[NIV] Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

[NIV] To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

[NIV] Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

[NIV] Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.