‘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’
—2 Thessalonians 1:3

‘And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more’
—1 Thessalonians 4:10