But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. Wherein HE hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you. Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. A faithful man shall abound with blessings.
