Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,

Reinforce these commands, so that they will be beyond reproach.

and so incur judgment for breaking their former pledge.

But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with sound teaching.

whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you.

but to repeat the text cited earlier: “They will never enter my rest!”

Now without dispute the inferior is blessed by the superior,

And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.

If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth.

Moreover, we possess the prophetic word as an altogether reliable thing. You do well if you pay attention to this as you would to a light shining in a murky place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

From the elder, to Gaius my dear brother, whom I love in truth.