And I myself, Paul, call on you through the meekness and gentleness of Christ I, who indeed according to face am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you;
Therefore, brothers, I call on you through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
I, even your brother John, and cosharer in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, came to be in the island being called Patmos on account of the Word of God, and for the witness of Jesus Christ.
Do you look at things according to face? If anyone has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him think this again as to himself, that as he is of Christ, so also we are of Christ.
but I ask, not being present, that I may be bold with the confidence which I think to be bold gainst some, the ones reckoning us as walking according to flesh.
And the content of the Scripture which he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is voiceless before the one shearing it, so He does not open His mouth.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous and being victorious,lowly, and riding on a she-ass, even on a colt, the son of she-asses. (Matthew 21:5)
if indeed you continue in the faith having been founded and steadfast, and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, the one being proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.