Colossians 4:18

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

For there are three who testify:

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

Grace be with you all. Amen.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.