(Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.

At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We stayed in this city for some days.

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: “If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat.”

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.