Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, {\i which is} your spiritual service.
I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience {\i which are} in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.
yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.\par
We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech {\i you} on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.
Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this,\par\tab {\b He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;\par\tab And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb,\par\tab So he openeth not his mouth:}
{\b Tell ye the daughter of Zion,\par\tab Behold, thy King cometh unto thee,\par\tab Meek, and riding upon an ass,\par\tab And upon a colt the foal of an ass.}
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.
And in thy majesty ride on prosperously,\par\tab Because of truth and meekness {\i and} righteousness:\par\tab And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.