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That their hearts may be comforted, and that they may be brought near by love to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, the Father, and of Christ,

For these things are customs which are changeable and they are the commandments and doctrines of men.

And it appears there is some word of wisdom in these things when presented by the humble person in fear of God; provided they disregard the things of the flesh, not those things which are honourable but only those things which satisfy the pleasure of the flesh.

Together with O-nes''i-mus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you all the things which have happened to us.

Who both killed the LORD Jesus Christ, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are against all men;

For when they shall say: Peace and tranquility; then sudden destruction will come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

For they, at the judgment day, shall be rewarded with everlasting destruction from the presence of our LORD, and from the glory of his power;

And with all deceitfulness of unrighteousness in those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved thereby.

Now it is these people that we command and exhort by our LORD Jesus Christ, that they work quietly and eat their own bread.

Namely Hy-me-n''us and Al-ex-an-der, whom I have delivered to Satan, to be disciplined so that they may no longer blaspheme.

Let these first be examined, and then let them minister after they have been found blameless.

Likewise their wives must be chaste, have an alert mind, faithful in all things, and they must not be slanderers.

And with it all, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only to be idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Likewise also the fame of the good works of some is well known beforehand; and if their acts are otherwise, they cannot be hidden either.

Those who have masters who are believers, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather serve them more zealously, because they are believers and beloved in whose service they find rest; These things teach and exhort.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: and there are some men who have coveted it and have thereby erred from the faith, they have brought to themselves many sorrows.

That they do good works, and become rich in good deeds, and be ready to give and willing to share,

Shun empty and worthless words, for they only increase the ungodliness of those who argue over them.

So that he may discipline gently those who argue against him; and perhaps God will grant them repentance and they will know the truth:

And come to themselves, and be saved from the trap of Satan, by whom they have been trapped to his will.