After this letter has been read among you, make sure that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.

Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

I urge you, brothers, to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have only written to you briefly.