Final Greetings

^21 (A)So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, ^(B)Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything. ²² I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may ^(C)encourage your hearts.

¹⁰ By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, ^(A)nor is the one who ^(B)does not love his brother.

²¹ And ^(A)this commandment we have from him: ^(B)whoever loves God must also love his brother.

³⁸ But Paul thought best not to take with them one ^(A)who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

Final Greetings

⁷ Tychicus will tell you ^(A)all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant^[a] in the Lord. ⁸ I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, ⁹ and with him ^(B)Onesimus, our faithful and ^(C)beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

⁴ Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, ^(A)Aristarchus and Secundus; and ^(B)Gaius of Derbe, and ^(C)Timothy; and the Asians, ^(D)Tychicus and ^(E)Trophimus.

Final Instructions and Greetings

¹² When I send Artemas or ^(A)Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me ^(B)at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

^12 (A)Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.