But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!<n id="1" />p>

Greet all the brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> with a holy kiss.

and Josiah<n id="1" /> the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.p>

Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> with them.

Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> who are in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets in her<n id="2" /> house.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Do not address an older man harshly<n id="1" /> but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Dear friend,<n id="1" /> you demonstrate faithfulness<n id="2" /> by whatever you do for the brothers (even though they are strangers).

Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech.<n id="1" />

There<n id="1" /> we found<n id="2" /> some brothers<n id="3" /> and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.<n id="4" />

If you sin against your brothers or sisters<n id="1" /> in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

<p class="bodytext">Abraham was the father<n id="1" /> of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don&#8217;t they?

(for I have five brothers) to warn<n id="1" /> them so that they don&#8217;t come<n id="2" /> into this place of torment.&#8217;

but I have prayed for you, Simon,<n id="1" /> that your faith may not fail.<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> you have turned back,<n id="4" /> strengthen<n id="5" /> your brothers.&#8221;

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind<n id="1" /> to visit his fellow countrymen<n id="2" /> the Israelites.<n id="3" />

He thought his own people<n id="1" /> would understand that God was delivering them<n id="2" /> through him,<n id="3" /> but they did not understand.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now some men came down from Judea<n id="1" /> and began to teach the brothers, &#8220;Unless you are circumcised<n id="2" /> according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.&#8221;

When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia&#8217;s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then<n id="1" /> departed.p>

When they did not find them, they dragged<n id="1" /> Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials,<n id="2" /> screaming, &#8220;These people who have stirred up trouble<n id="3" /> throughout the world<n id="4" /> have come here too,

We continued the voyage from Tyre<n id="1" /> and arrived at Ptolemais,<n id="2" /> and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.