WARNING AGAINST DIVISIVE PEOPLE

17 Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned.g Avoid them,h 18 because such people do not serve our Lord Christi but their own appetites.F,j They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.k

PAUL’S GRACIOUS CONCLUSION

19 The report of your obedience has reached everyone.l Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise about what is good, and yet innocent about what is evil.m 20 The God of peacen will soon crush Satano under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.p

21 Timothy,q my coworker, and Lucius,r Jason,s and Sosipater,t my fellow countrymen, greet you.

22 I, Tertius, who wrote this letter,u greet you in the Lord.G

23 Gaius,v who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus,w the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus greet you.*

GLORY TO GOD

25 Now to him who is able to strengthen youx according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ,y according to the revelation of the mystery kept silentz for long agesaa 26 but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures,ab according to the command of the eternal God to advance the obedience of faithac among all the Gentiles—27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ—to him be the glory forever!* ad Amen.