Urge slaves to be submissive to their owners in all circumstances, and to try their best to please them.

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis: for it is my purpose to be there for the winter.

Do your best to help Zenas, the Teacher of the Law, and Apollos, on their way, and see that they want for nothing.