Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authorities but also because of your conscience.

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”

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

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

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my good friend Stachys.

Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers and sisters with them.

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

For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge –

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

And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

One should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

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

Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?

Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?

And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for man.