Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;

For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

Epaphras, my brother-prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you his love;