1Chapter 5 — Pray for me.
2My brethren, I am greatly enlarged in loving you; and rejoicing exceedingly over you, I seek to secure your safety.
3Yet it is not I, but Jesus Christ, for whose sake being bound I fear the more, inasmuch as I am not yet perfect.
4But your prayer to God shall make me perfect, that I may attain to that portion which through mercy has been allotted me, while I flee to the Gospel as to the flesh of Jesus, and to the apostles as to the presbytery of the Church.
5And let us also love the prophets, because they too have proclaimed the Gospel, and placed their hope in Him, and waited for Him; in whom also believing, they were saved, through union to Jesus Christ, being holy men, worthy of love and admiration, having had witness borne to them by Jesus Christ, and being reckoned along with us in the Gospel of the common hope.
6My brethren, I am greatly enlarged in loving you; and rejoicing exceedingly over you, I seek to secure your safety.
7Yet it is not I, but the Lord Jesus through me; for whose sake being bound, I fear the more, for I am not yet perfect.
8But your prayer to God shall make me perfect, that I may attain that to which I have been called, while I flee to the Gospel as to the flesh of Jesus Christ, and to the apostles as the presbytery of the Church.
9I do also love the prophets as those who announced Christ, and as being partakers of the same Spirit with the apostles.
10For as the false prophets and the false apostles drew to themselves one and the same wicked, deceitful, and seducing spirit; so also did the prophets and the apostles receive from God, through Jesus Christ, one and the same Holy Spirit, who is good, and sovereign, and true, and the Author of saving knowledge.
11For there is one God of the Old and New Testament, "one Mediator between God and men," for the creation of both intelligent and sensitive beings, and in order to exercise a beneficial and suitable providence over them.
12There is also one Comforter, who displayed His power in Moses, and the prophets, and apostles.
13All the saints, therefore, were saved by Christ, hoping in Him, and waiting for Him; and they obtained through Him salvation, being holy ones, worthy of love and admiration, having testimony borne to them by Jesus Christ, in the Gospel of our common hope.