In me then death is active, in you life.
I am glad to be weak if you are strong; mend your ways, that is all I ask.
We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.
We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.
But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all —
And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?
for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.
every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.
But since our spirit of faith is the same, therefore — as it is written I believed and so I spoke — I too believe and so I speak,
