for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

I call on you solemnly in the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.

And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time.

And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.

Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

But “when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.