Part 16

016:010 Greetings to Apella, that veteran believer; and to the members of the household of Aristobulus.

016:011 Greetings to my countryman, Herodion; and to the believing members of the household of Narcissus.

016:012 Greetings to those Christian workers, Tryphaena and Tryphosa; also to dear Persis, who has laboured strenuously in the Lord's work.

016:013 Greetings to Rufus, who is one of the Lord's chosen people; and to his mother, who has also been a mother to me.

016:014 Greetings to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and to the brethren associated with them;

016:015 to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister and Olympas, and to all God's people associated with them.

016:016 Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the Churches of Christ send greetings to you.

016:017 But I beseech you, brethren, to keep a watch on those who are causing the divisions among you, and are leading others into sin, in defiance of the instruction which you have received; and habitually to shun them.

016:018 For men of that stamp are not bondservants of Christ our Lord, but are slaves to their own appetites; and by their plausible words and their flattery they utterly deceive the minds of the simple.

016:019 Your fidelity to the truth is everywhere known. I rejoice over you, therefore, but I wish you to be wise as to what is good, and simple-minded as to what is evil.

016:020 And before long, God the giver of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!

016:021 Timothy, my fellow worker, sends you greetings, and so do my countrymen Lucius, Jason and Sosipater.

016:022 I, Tertius, who write this letter, send you Christian greetings.

016:023 Gaius, my host, who is also the host of the whole Church, greets you. So do Erastus, the treasurer of the city, and Quartus our brother.

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016:025 To Him who has it in His power to make you strong, as declared in the Good News which I am spreading, and the proclamation concerning Jesus Christ, in harmony with the unveiling of the Truth which in the periods of past Ages remained unuttered,

016:026 but has now been brought fully to light, and by the command of the God of the Ages has been made known by the writings of the Prophets among all the Gentiles to win them to obedience to the faith--

016:027 to God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, even to Him be the glory through all the Ages! Amen.