Give my love to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.
And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?
Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.
Give my love to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;