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For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

because I hear of your love for all the saints and your faith toward the Lord Jesus.

I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective when you perceive all the good that we may do for Christ.

For this reason, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do your duty,

I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.

I wanted to keep him with me, so that he might be of service to me in your place during my imprisonment for the gospel;

Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back forever,

One thing more—prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be restored to you.

He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you"? Or again, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son"?

But to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"?

Are not all angels spirits in the divine service, sent to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,

But someone has testified somewhere, "What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them?

You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor,

but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,