Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Pray for me also, that I may be given the message when I begin to speak – that I may confidently make known the mystery of the gospel,

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, given to you and confirmed by prophetic words when the elders laid hands on you.

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment.

May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

Again he says, “I will be confident in him,” and again, “Here I am, with the children God has given me.”

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.