Brotherly Love
Continue in brotherly love. 1Jn 4:201Pe 3:81Pe 1:221Pe 2:172Pe 1:71Jn 2:9-102Jn 1:5-6Heb 10:24 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Mat 25:35Gen 18:11Pe 4:9Rom 12:13Mat 25:43Mat 25:40Lev 19:341Ki 17:10-16 Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them. Mat 25:36Heb 10:34Rom 12:151Co 12:26Col 4:181Pe 3:8Gal 6:1-2Mat 25:43
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. Gen 2:24Pro 5:15-231Co 7:2-16Gal 5:19Gen 1:27-281Co 6:9Gal 5:211Co 5:13
Christ’s Unchanging Nature
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: Deu 31:8Jos 1:5Deu 31:61Sa 12:22Isa 41:17Psa 37:25Isa 41:101Ch 28:20
“Never will I leave you,
never will I forsake you.” 1
So we say with confidence: Psa 118:6-9Isa 41:10Rom 8:31Psa 27:1-3Psa 124:8Heb 4:16Psa 56:4Psa 56:11-12
“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?” 2
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 1Th 5:12-13Heb 13:17Php 3:17Heb 6:121Th 1:61Th 2:131Ti 3:5Act 14:23 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Mal 3:6Jas 1:17Rev 1:8Isa 44:6Heb 1:12Psa 102:27-28Psa 90:2Psa 103:17
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them. Eph 4:141Ti 6:3-5Eph 5:61Jn 4:1Rom 14:6Act 20:30Gal 1:6-9Mat 24:4 We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat. 1Co 10:201Co 5:7-81Co 9:131Co 10:17-18Num 7:5Num 3:7-8
Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp. Lev 16:27Exo 29:14Lev 9:11Num 19:3Lev 6:30Lev 16:14-19Lev 4:11-12Lev 4:16-21 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood. Heb 9:12-14Jhn 19:17-18Mrk 15:20-241Co 6:11Act 7:58Eph 5:26Heb 10:29Jhn 19:34 Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore. Heb 11:261Pe 4:14-16Act 5:41Luk 6:22Mat 16:241Co 4:10-132Co 12:10Mat 27:39-44 For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. Php 3:20Col 3:1-3Heb 11:12-16Heb 12:222Pe 3:13-14Eph 2:192Co 4:17Heb 11:9-10
Sacrifice, Obedience, and Prayer
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name. Psa 107:21-22Psa 50:14Rom 12:1Psa 145:1-211Pe 2:5Hos 14:2Eph 5:19-20Isa 57:19 And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. 2Th 3:13Gal 6:10Rom 12:13Heb 6:10Heb 13:1-21Ti 6:18Eph 4:282Co 9:12-13
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you. 1Th 5:12-131Ti 5:17Heb 13:71Pe 5:5Act 20:281Pe 5:2-31Co 16:16Jer 13:17
Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way. 1Th 5:252Th 3:11Ti 1:5Col 4:3Act 24:16Rom 15:301Pe 2:121Pe 3:16 And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you soon. Phm 1:22Rom 1:10-12Rom 15:31-32
Benediction and Farewell
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, Jhn 10:11Heb 10:22Psa 23:1Rom 15:33Jhn 10:142Th 3:16Ezk 37:26Zec 9:11 equip you with every good thing 3to do His will. And may He accomplish in us 4what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Php 2:132Th 2:17Php 4:131Pe 5:10-111Pe 2:52Ti 4:18Php 1:111Th 5:23
I urge you, brothers, to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have only written to you briefly. 1Pe 5:122Co 6:1Heb 3:1Gal 6:112Co 5:20Heb 10:19-39Heb 12:1-2Heb 13:1-3
Be aware that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you. 1Th 3:2Phm 1:12Ti 1:81Ti 6:12Act 16:1-3Phm 1:22Rev 7:14Rom 15:25
Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Heb 13:17Heb 13:7Act 18:2Phm 1:52Co 1:12Co 13:13Col 1:2Php 4:22
Those from Italy send you greetings.
Grace be with all of you. 5 Col 4:182Ti 4:22Eph 6:24Rev 22:21Rom 16:20Tit 3:15Rom 1:7Rom 16:23