In writing to fellow Christians, Paul concludes the list of warnings with the exhortation: “Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.
پولس در پایان فهرست تذکّرات و سفارشاتی که به هم‌ایمانان مسیحی خود داد گفت :‏ « این همه به طور مَثَل بدیشان واقع شد و برای تنبیه ما مکتوب گردید که اواخر عالم به ما رسیده است .‏