He answered them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:

“Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat,

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

we have unanimously decided to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

but said farewell to them and added, “I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,

So because these facts are indisputable, you must keep quiet and not do anything reckless.

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

I praise you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.