I, Tertius, who am writing this letter, greet you in the Lord.

so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” ¹ 

I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” ¹ 

I assure you ¹  that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you! ² 

See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

Now on the topic of times and seasons, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  you have no need for anything to be written to you.

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions ¹  to you

Thus ¹  we are writing these things so that ²  our ³  joy may be complete. ⁴ 

I am writing to you, ¹  little children, that ²  your sins have been forgiven because of his ³  name.

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, ¹  I suppose the whole world ²  would not have room for the books that would be written. ³ 

But I have nothing definite ¹  to write to my lord ²  about him. ³  Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, ⁴  so that after this preliminary hearing ⁵  I may have something to write.

For all who ¹  rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.” ² 

I have written to you, children, that ¹  you have known the Father. ²  I have written to you, fathers, that ³  you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that ⁴  you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you ¹  about our common salvation, I now feel compelled ²  instead to write to encourage ³  you to contend earnestly ⁴  for the faith ⁵  that was once for all ⁶  entrusted to the saints. ⁷ 

When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but ¹  just then ²  I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down.”

“In Bethlehem of Judea,” they said, “for it is written this way by the prophet:

Jesus said to him, “Once again it is written: ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’” ¹ 

But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him.”