For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.”

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

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

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

I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.

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

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters – with complete purity.

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.

Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled,

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

So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Now the believer of humble means should take pride in his high position.