May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

Do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. … For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. … Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

2Th 3:13; 2Th 2:16; 1Ti 6:18, Ep 2:10, Ga 6:10; 2Th 1:11-12; He 13:20-21

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