in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,

But when he arrived in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me.

So you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Think about what I am saying and the Lord will give you understanding of all this.

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

But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with sound teaching.

who was formerly useless to you, but is now useful to you and me.

Now if he has defrauded you of anything or owes you anything, charge what he owes to me.

They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.

saying, “Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

I especially ask you to pray that I may be restored to you very soon.