Christian Fellowship

Having dealt with the difficulties in the text lets draw out some lessons;

As I was studying this passage, I was asking the question what do these three Difficulties in the Passage all have in Common
And one thing that is common to all three of them is the concept of Christian Fellowship.

There is a Focus on the Right Kind of Fellowship in the mention of Salutation from a Sister Church.

There is a note about The Wrong Kind of Fellowship in the mention of Babylon.

And there is the mention of Restoring One to Fellowship in the mention of Marcus.

And then in the final verse, there is a statement regarding what all True Christian Fellowship must be founded upon, in the mention of the words, "Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus"