Thanksgiving

^3 (A)We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers,^[a] as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. ⁴ Therefore ^(B)we ourselves boast about you ^(C)in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith ^(D)in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

⁴ since we heard of ^(A)your faith in Christ Jesus and of ^(B)the love that you have for all the saints,

¹⁴ and ^(A)the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the ^(B)faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

^19 (A)“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.