Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God, always making remembrance of thee in my prayers,

So that the mutual participation of thy faith might be effective in acknowledgment of every good in you to Christ Jesus.

Whom I was wishing to retain to myself, that for thee he might serve me in the bonds of the good news:

But without thy judgment I would do nothing; that good might not be as according to necessity, but according to free will.