The Nations Exhorted to Praise God.

For the music director; with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

¹⁸ And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “^(A)All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. ^19 [a](B)Go, therefore, and ^(C)make disciples of ^(D)all the nations, ^(E)baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to ^[b]follow all that I commanded you; and behold, ^(F)I am with you ^[c]always, to ^(G)the end of the age.”

²³ When ^(A)they had appointed ^(B)elders for them in every church, having ^(C)prayed with fasting, they ^(D)entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

¹⁰ always in my prayers requesting if perhaps now, at last by ^(A)the will of God, I will succeed in coming to you.

The Word of Faith Brings Salvation

10 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.

^18 [a]With every ^(A)prayer and request, ^[b](B)pray at all times ^(C)in the Spirit, and with this in view, ^[c](D)be alert with all ^(E)perseverance and every ^(F)request for all the ^[d]saints, ¹⁹ and ^(G)pray in my behalf, that speech may be given to me ^(H)in the opening of my mouth, to make known with ^(I)boldness ^(J)the mystery of the gospel,

^6 (A)Do not ^[a]be anxious about anything, but in everything by ^(B)prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

^2 (A)Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving; ³ praying at the same time ^(B)for us as well, that God will open up to us a ^(C)door for ^(D)the word, so that we may proclaim ^(E)the mystery of Christ, for which I have also ^(F)been imprisoned; ⁴ that I may make it clear ^(G)in the way that I ought to proclaim it.