Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you.

For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

but to repeat the text cited earlier: “They will never enter my rest!”

By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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

then he says, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.”

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

And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.

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

My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,

The church in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you, and so does Mark, my son.

I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.

For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.