And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the assembly, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that Elohim had done with them.
And now, brethren, I commend you to Elohim, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
And not that only, but who was also chosen of the assemblies to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the honour of the same Master, and declaration of your ready mind:
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Messiah, and also a partaker of the honour that shall be revealed:
But the Elohim of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal honour by the Messiah Yahshua, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.