¹⁸ Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.

²⁵ Brothers, keep us in mind in your prayers.

⁵ But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

¹ For the rest, my brothers, let there be prayer for us that the word of the Lord may go forward with increasing glory, even as it does with you;

¹⁶ And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

¹ And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

²¹ And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;

¹⁶ Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.

¹² Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.

¹² That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

³ And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;

⁸ For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

¹⁹ And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,

²⁰ For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

¹² For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

³⁰ Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

¹³ With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

¹⁷ Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.