Do your best (spoudason | σπούδασον | aor act imperative 2 sg) to come before winter. Eubulus greets you as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.

Do your best (spoudason | σπούδασον | aor act imperative 2 sg) to come to me soon,

Be diligent (spoudason | σπούδασον | aor act imperative 2 sg) to present yourself before God as one tried and true, an unashamed worker, correctly handling the word of truth.

As for us, brothers, when we were separated from you for a short time — in person but not in heart — we (espoudasamen | ἐσπουδάσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl) were (espoudasamen | ἐσπουδάσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl) all the more eager (espoudasamen | ἐσπουδάσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl), with intense longing, to see you in person.

making every effort (spoudazontes | σπουδάζοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the bond of peace.

They asked only that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I (espoudasa | ἐσπούδασα | aor act ind 1 sg) too was eager (espoudasa | ἐσπούδασα | aor act ind 1 sg) to do.

The one who supplies seed (sporon | σπόρον | acc sg masc) to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed (sporon | σπόρον | acc sg masc) and enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

“Now this is what the parable means: The seed (sporos | σπόρος | nom sg masc) is the word of God.

“A sower went out to sow his seed (sporon | σπόρον | acc sg masc). And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of heaven devoured it.

He goes to bed and gets up, night and day, and the seed (sporos | σπόρος | nom sg masc) sprouts and grows, how. although he does not know how. he