But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all …

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, …

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.

As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

And most of the brothers, confident in the Lord by my chains, now dare more greatly to speak the word without fear.

because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.

since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.

Do everything without complaining or arguing,

He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.

Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.

… with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

… up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is …