Bible Verses About Epistles

Dear Theophilos: Concerning the matters that have taken place among us, many people have undertaken to draw up accounts

based on what was handed down to us by those who from the start were eyewitnesses and proclaimers of the message.

Therefore, Your Excellency, since I have carefully investigated all these things from the beginning, it seemed good to me that I too should write you an accurate and ordered narrative,

so that you might know how well-founded are the things about which you have been taught.

with the following letter: From: The emissaries and the elders, your brothers To: The brothers from among the Gentiles throughout Antioch, Syria and Cilicia Greetings!

We have heard that some people went out from among us without our authorization, and that they have upset you with their talk, unsettling your minds.

So we have decided unanimously to select men and send them to you with our dear friends Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul,

who have dedicated their lives to upholding the name of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

So we have sent Y’hudah and Sila, and they will confirm in person what we are writing.

For it seemed good to the Ruach HaKodesh and to us not to lay any heavier burden on you than the following requirements:

to abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will be doing the right thing. Shalom!

From: The Elder To: The chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth — and not only I but also all who have come to know the truth —

because of the Truth which remains united with us and will be with us forever:

Grace, mercy and shalom will be with us from God the Father and from Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

I was very happy when I found some of your children living in truth, just as the Father commanded us.

And now, dear lady, I am requesting that we love one another — not as if this were a new command I am writing you, for it is the one which we have had from the beginning.

Moreover, love is this: that we should live according to his commands. This is the command, as you people have heard from the beginning; live by it!

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not acknowledge Yeshua the Messiah’s coming as a human being. Such a person is a deceiver and an anti-Messiah.

Watch yourselves, so that you won’t lose what you have worked for, but will receive your full reward.

Everyone who goes ahead and does not remain true to what the Messiah has taught does not have God. Those who remain true to his teaching have both the Father and the Son.

If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, don’t welcome him into your home. Don’t even say, “Shalom!” to him;

for the person who says, “Shalom!” to him shares in his evil deeds.

Although I have much to write you people, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come and see you and to talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

The children of your chosen sister send you their greetings.

From: The Elder To: Dear Gaius, whom I love in truth: