Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,

Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

though I am confident in the Lord that I too will be coming to see you soon.

So welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him,

I appeal to Euodia and to Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

“Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

For David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand,

because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people were brought to the Lord.

When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.

Greet Herodion, my compatriot. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now when I arrived in Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord had opened a door of opportunity for me,

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,