⁵ Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

²³ Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

²⁴ And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

¹² As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

¹ Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

² Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.

³ Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.

¹³ Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

⁵ Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.

⁶ Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.

⁷ Tychicus will give you news of all my business: he is a dear brother and true servant and helper in the word;

¹ By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

²⁴ Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

⁹ This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

¹⁰ Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

¹¹ But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

¹⁰ So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.

²⁰ Truly I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me.