13 Greetings also to Rufus, one of the Lord’s chosen people, and to his mother, who has been a mother to me too.
14 Give my greetings to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and all the brothers in Christ who are with them.
15 Give greetings to Philologus and Julia, to Nereus and his sister, to Olympas, and to all of God’s people with them.
16 Give each other the special greeting of God’s people. All the churches that belong to Christ send their greetings to you.
17 Brothers and sisters, I want you to be very careful of those who cause arguments and hurt people’s faith by teaching things that are against what you learned. Stay away from them.
18 People like that are not serving our Lord Christ. They are only pleasing themselves. They use fancy talk and say nice things to fool those who don’t know about evil.
19 Everyone has heard that you do what you were taught, and I am very happy about that. But I want you to be wise about what is good and to know nothing about what is evil.