So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

But examine all things; hold fast to what is good.

He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this.

Greet all the brothers and sisters with a holy kiss.

when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed – and you did in fact believe our testimony.

not to be easily shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance.

But the one who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

and so incur judgment for breaking their former pledge.

For some have already wandered away to follow Satan.

Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.

This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

Greetings to Prisca and Aquila and the family of Onesiphorus.

In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my colaborers, greet you too.

You put all things under his control.” For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.