Vers. 12, 13. _A Prayer for Growth in Personal Piety_--

+I. Acknowledges and invokes the Divine source of all spiritual

good.+--"The Lord make you."

+II. Growth in piety is growth in Christian love.+--"Increase and

abound in love."

+III. Growth in piety is the establishment of the soul in unblameable

holiness.+--"To the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable

in holiness."

+IV. Growth in piety is essential to gain the approval of God at the

second advent of Christ.+--"Before God, at the coming of our

Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints."