Obey<n id="1" /> with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord<n id="2" /> and not people,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

though I am confident in the Lord that I too will be coming to see you<n id="1" /> soon.p>

So welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him,

<p class="bodytext">I appeal to Euodia and to Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Wives, submit to your<n id="1" /> husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Whatever you are doing,<n id="1" /> work at it with enthusiasm,<n id="2" /> as to the Lord and not for people,<n id="3" />

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord&#8217;s.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation,<n id="1" /> &#8216;<b><i>Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lordi>b>.&#8217;<n id="2" />

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, &#8220;<i>Every firstborn malei><n id="1" /> <i>will be set apart to the Lordi>&#8221;<n id="2" />),

For David himself says in the book of Psalms,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>The Lord said to myi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>lord,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>Sit at my right hand,i>b>p>

because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people<n id="1" /> were brought to the Lord.

When they had appointed elders<n id="1" /> for them in the various churches,<n id="2" /> with prayer and fasting<n id="3" /> they entrusted them to the protection<n id="4" /> of the Lord in whom they had believed.

Greet Herodion, my compatriot.<n id="1" /> Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

<p class="bodytext">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.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as<n id="1" /> my boasting in you,<n id="2" /> which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now when I arrived in Troas<n id="1" /> to proclaim the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord had opened<n id="2" /> a door of opportunity<n id="3" /> for me,

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord,<n id="1" /> urge you to live<n id="2" /> worthily of the calling with which you have been called,<n id="3" />

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music<n id="1" /> in<n id="2" /> your hearts to the Lord,