For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.

For this reason, ever since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God's people,

For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all God's people.

Your love, dear brother, has brought me great joy and much encouragement! You have cheered the hearts of all of God's people.

How excellent are the LORD's faithful people! My greatest pleasure is to be with them.

So Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, he was taken to the room upstairs, where all the widows crowded around him, crying and showing him all the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was alive.

Peter reached over and helped her get up. Then he called all the believers, including the widows, and presented her alive to them.

Share your belongings with your needy fellow Christians, and open your homes to strangers.

Right now, however, I am going to Jerusalem in the service of God's people there.

For the churches in Macedonia and Achaia have freely decided to give an offering to help the poor among God's people in Jerusalem.

Now, concerning what you wrote about the money to be raised to help God's people in Judea. You must do what I told the churches in Galatia to do.

What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.

This is how we know that we love God's children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.