3Remind your people to submit to rulers and authorities, to obey them, and to be ready to do good in every way.G5279G846G5279G5293G746G2532G1849G3980G1511G2092G4314G3956G18G20412Tell them not to speak evil of anyone, but to be peaceful and friendly, and always to show a gentle attitude toward everyone.G987G3367G1511G269G1933G1731G3956G4236G4314G3956G4443For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.G1063G2249G2532G2258G453G4218G453G545G4105G1398G4164G1939G2532G2237G1236G1722G2549G2532G5355G4767G3404G2404But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was revealed,G1161G3753G5544G2532G5363G2316G2257G4990G5363G20145he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us.G3756G1537G2041G1722G1343G3739G2249G4160G235G2596G846G1656G4982G2248G1223G3067G3824G2532G342G40G41516God poured out the Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ our Savior,G3739G1632G1909G2248G4146G1223G2424G5547G2257G49907so that by his grace we might be put right with God and come into possession of the eternal life we hope for.G2443G1344G1565G5485G1096G2818G2596G1680G166G22228This is a true saying. I want you to give special emphasis to these matters, so that those who believe in God may be concerned with giving their time to doing good deeds, which are good and useful for everyone.G4103G3056G2532G4012G5130G1014G4571G1226G2443G4100G2316G5431G4291G2570G2041G5023G2076G2570G2532G5624G4449But avoid stupid arguments, long lists of ancestors, quarrels, and fights about the Law. They are useless and worthless.G1161G4026G3474G2214G2532G1076G2532G2054G2532G3163G3544G1063G1526G512G2532G315210Give at least two warnings to those who cause divisions, and then have nothing more to do with them.G444G141G3326G3391G2532G1208G3559G386811You know that such people are corrupt, and their sins prove that they are wrong.G1492G3754G5108G1612G2532G264G5607G843
Final Instructions
12When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me in Nicopolis, because I have decided to spend the winter there.G3752G3992G734G4314G4571G2228G5190G4704G2064G4314G3165G1519G3533G1063G2919G1563G391413Do your best to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos to get started on their travels, and see to it that they have everything they need.G4311G2211G3544G2532G625G4311G4709G2443G3367G3007G84614Our people must learn to spend their time doing good, in order to provide for real needs; they should not live useless lives.G1161G3129G2251G2532G3129G4291G2570G2041G1519G316G5532G3363G5600G3363G17515All who are with me send you greetings. Give our greetings to our friends in the faith. God's grace be with you all.G3956G3326G1700G782G4571G782G5368G2248G1722G4102G5485G3326G5216G3956G281