13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. 1 Let them do this 2 with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you. 13:18 Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect. 13:19 I especially ask you to pray 3 that I may be restored to you very soon.
1 tn Or “as ones who will give an account”; Grk “as giving an account.”
2 tn Grk “that they may do this.”
3 tn Grk “I urge you to do this all the more.”