Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

But the one who boasts must boast in the Lord. ¹ 

trying to learn ¹  what is pleasing to the Lord.

¹ Wives, submit ²  to your husbands as to the Lord,

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

For now we are alive again, ¹  if you stand firm in the Lord.

The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The ¹  one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

Greet Tryphena ¹  and Tryphosa, laborers in the Lord. Greet my dear friend ²  Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.

The ¹  apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” ² 

More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, ¹  crowds of both men and women.

Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me. ¹ 

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 

But the one united with ¹  the Lord is one spirit with him. ² 

In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

In him ¹  the whole building, ²  being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

This was according to ¹  the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are ¹  light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –

Children, ¹  obey your parents in the Lord ²  for this is right.