The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
Parallel translations
- WEB The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
- BSB This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.
- NKJV This salutation by my own hand—Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.
- NASB I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.
- NLT Here is my greeting in my own handwriting—Paul. Remember my chains. May God’s grace be with you.
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Quick answer
Paul closes in his own hand, asking them to remember his imprisonment, and prays grace upon them. It matters because the letter ends, as it lives, in the grace of God in Christ.
Overview
Paul authenticates the letter with his personal signature and a poignant request: 'remember my bonds.' His final word is 'grace,' the keynote of the whole gospel he has proclaimed. Fittingly, the letter that exalts the supremacy and sufficiency of Christ ends by commending its readers to the grace that flows from him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Heb 13:3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
- 1 Tim 6:21Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
- 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- 1 Cor 16:21The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
- Heb 13:25Grace be with you all. Amen.
- 2 Tim 1:8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
- Phil 1:7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
- Titus 3:15All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
- Rom 16:20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
- Col 4:3Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
- 2 Th 3:17The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
- Rom 16:23Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
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