Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.

But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

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

Tychicus, a dear brother, faithful minister, and fellow slave in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.

I sent him with Onesimus, the faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

When you come, bring with you the cloak I left in Troas with Carpas and the scrolls, especially the parchments.

Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.

And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,