Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.

For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.”

and my spirit has begun to rejoice in God my Savior,

Thomas replied to him, “My Lord and my God!”

I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,

“As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body also will live in hope,

“Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I take great delight. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.

Did my hand not make all these things?’

Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.

So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

Nevertheless, you did well to share with me in my trouble.

Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my colaborers, greet you too.

And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.