Personal greetings
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📚✭I commend to you Phoebe our sister✭, who is a servant✭ of the church in Cenchrea, 2 📚that you receive her in the Lord, as is worthy of saints, and that you assist her in whatever business she has need of you. For she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.3 📚Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus, 4 📚✭who have risked their necks for my life. Not only I give thanks to them, but also all the Gentile churches.
5 📚✭Likewise greet the church that meets in their house. Greet my dear Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Asia to Christ.
6 📚✭Greet Mary, who laboured much for us.
7 📚✭Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives, and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles✭, who were also in Christ before me.
8 📚Greet Amplias, who is dear to me in the Lord.
9 📚Greet Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys who is dear to me.
10 📚Greet Apelles, approved in Christ✭. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
11 📚Greet Herodion, my relative. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
12 📚✭Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Greet dear Persis, who has laboured much in the Lord.
13 📚Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother✭ and mine.
14 📚Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them.
15 📚Greet Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
16 📚✭Greet one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ greet you.
A warning against teachers of false doctrine
17 📚✭Now I plead with you, brethren, look out for those who cause divisions and hindrances contrary to the teaching you have learned, and avoid them. 18 📚✭For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own stomach, and by flattery and fine speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 19 📚For your obedience has become known to everyone. So I am happy about you, but I want you to be wise concerning what is good, and simple concerning evil.
Concluding remarks
20 📚And the God of peace✭ will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
21 📚Timotheus, my fellow worker, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relatives, greet you.
22 📚✭I Tertius, who wrote down this epistle, greet you in the Lord.
23 📚Gaius✭, my host, and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city manager, greets you, and Quartus, a brother, does too.
24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
25 📚✭Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in accordance with the revelation of the mystery that was hidden since the world began, 26 📚✭but is now revealed, and through the writings of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith, 27 📚✭to God, who alone is wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.