As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.