“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that everyone will see your progress.

(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion and your frequent illnesses.)

You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.

So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don’t let anyone look down on you.

to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your house.

I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

I wanted to keep him so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel.

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.

And, “You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.

For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are living according to the truth.

They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.”