15. Give greetings to Philologus and Julia, to Nereus and his sister, to Olympas, and to all of God’s people with them.
16. Give each other the special greeting of God’s people. All the churches that belong to Christ send their greetings to you.
17. Brothers and sisters, I want you to be very careful of those who cause arguments and hurt people’s faith by teaching things that are against what you learned. Stay away from them.
18. People like that are not serving our Lord Christ. They are only pleasing themselves. They use fancy talk and say nice things to fool those who don’t know about evil.
19. Everyone has heard that you do what you were taught, and I am very happy about that. But I want you to be wise about what is good and to know nothing about what is evil.
20. The God who brings peace will soon defeat Satan and give you power over him. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
21. Timothy, a worker together with me, sends you his greetings. Also Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater (these are my relatives) send their greetings.
22. I am Tertius, the one writing this letter for Paul. I send you my own greetings as one who belongs to the Lord.
23. Gaius is letting me and the whole church here use his home. He sends his greetings to you. Erastus and our brother Quartus also send their greetings. Erastus is the city treasurer here.