Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

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

Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.

From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,

but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.

We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

Do you not know that we will judge angels? Why not ordinary matters!

But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.