⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, ^(A)‘Peace be to this house!’

⁶ And thus you shall greet him: ^(A)‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

¹² As you enter the house, ^(A)greet it. ¹³ And if the house is ^(B)worthy, let ^(C)your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let ^(D)your peace return to you.

¹⁷ And he came and ^(A)preached peace to you who were ^(B)far off and peace to those who were ^(C)near.

¹⁸ All this is from God, ^(A)who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us ^(B)the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ that is, in Christ God was reconciling^[a] the world to himself, ^(C)not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us ^(D)the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ Therefore, ^(E)we are ambassadors for Christ, ^(F)God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

⁹ And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since ^(A)he also is a son of Abraham.

³⁶ As for ^(A)the word that he sent to Israel, ^(B)preaching good news of ^(C)peace through Jesus Christ (^(D)he is Lord of all),