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For we also were afore-time without understanding, and disobedient and erring, and were subjected to various lusts; and in malice, and in envy we conversed, and were hateful, and also hating one another.

But from foolish disputations, and from tales of genealogies, and from contentions, and strifes of the sophree [fn] withdraw; for profit is not in them, and they are vain.

When I have sent to thee Artema, or Tykikos, be careful to come to me at Nikopolis; for there I have determined in my mind to winter.

All they who are with me ask for thy peace. Ask for the peace of all who love us in the faith. Grace be with all of you. Amen.

For we have great joy and consolation, that by thy love the bowels of the saints are refreshed.

but for love's sake entreating I entreat of thee, I, Paulos, who am the aged as thou knowest, but now also the bondman of Jeshu Meshiha.

And I entreat of thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimos,

For I would have retained him with me, that he might have served me for thy sake in the bonds of the gospel;

But, perhaps, for this he passed away for an hour, that thou mayest hold him for ever;

I, Paulos, have written with my hands, I will repay thee; for I will not tell thee that thou owest thyself to me.

But at once also prepare me a house of lodging, for I hope through your prayers I shall be given to you.

and Markos, and Aristarkos, and Dema, and Luka, my helpers, ask for your peace.

For unto which one from (among) the angels at any time said Aloha, Thou art MY SON; I to-day have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him the Father, and he shall be to me the Son?

But concerning the Son he hath said, Thy throne, Aloha, (is) for ever and ever, a right sceptre [fn] (is) the sceptre of thy kingdom.

For if the word which was uttered by angels was confirmed, and every one who heard it, and transgressed against it, received a just retribution [fn] ,

For it was not to the angels he subjected the world which is future [fn] , of which we discourse.

9 But him who was humbled to be less than the angels, we see to be JESHU himself, for the sake of the passion of his death; and glory and honour set upon his head; for He Aloha [fn] , in his grace, for every man hath tasted death!

For it was proper to him by whose hand are all, and on account of whom all are, (and who) would lead many sons to his glory, that the Prince [fn] of their salvation by sufferings should be perfected.

For he who sanctified, and they who are sanctified, are all from one: wherefore he has not been ashamed to call them his brethren.

For not from the angels he took [fn] , but from the seed of Abraham he took.