Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

ruin and misery are in their paths,

Greet Herodion, my compatriot. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, laborers in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,