16But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
17Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
18Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.
19I make this request more strongly, in the hope of coming back to you more quickly.
20Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,
21Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
22But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.
