¹⁰ for ^(A)Demas has forsaken me, ^(B)having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.

Do Not Love the World

^15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. ^(B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, ^(C)the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

¹⁵ This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

⁴ For ^(A)whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that ^(B)has overcome the world—^[a]our faith. ⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world, but ^(C)he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

^14 (A)Luke the beloved physician and ^(B)Demas greet you. ¹⁵ Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and ^[a]Nymphas and ^(C)the church that is in ^[b]his house.

^13 (A)I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia.

The Macedonian Call

⁶ Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of ^(A)Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in ^[a]Asia.

²⁴ as do ^(A)Mark, ^(B)Aristarchus, ^(C)Demas, ^(D)Luke, my fellow laborers.

¹⁶ At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. ^(A)May it not be charged against them.

⁶ Nevertheless ^(A)God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by ^(B)the coming of Titus,