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.