18. For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
19. For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, and I want you to be wise toward what is good, but innocent toward what is evil.
20. And in a short time the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
21. Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my compatriots.
22. I, Tertius, the one who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.
23. Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer greets you, and Quartus the brother.
24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen.