Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters who are in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets in her house.

Now on the topic of times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you.

Now regarding the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to be with him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,

Make every effort to come before winter. Greetings to you from Eubulus, Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters.

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly.

But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.

If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,