Epistle to the Philadelphians (Short Version)
Chapter 5: Pray for Me
My brothers, I am greatly expanded in loving you; and rejoicing exceedingly over you, I seek to secure your safety. Yet it is not I, but Jesus Christ, for whose sake being bound I fear more, as I am not yet perfect. But your prayer to God shall make me perfect, that I may attain the portion which through mercy has been allotted to me, while I flee to the Gospel as to the flesh of Jesus, and to the apostles as to the presbytery of the Church. And 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 with 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.