Now I rejoice in my sufferings for y’all’s sake, and fill up on my part what is lacking of Christ’s oppressions in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church.
But after y’all have suffered a little while, may the God of all grace, who called y’all to his eternal glory in Christ, restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish y’all.
But if we are afflicted, it is for y’all’s comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for y’all’s comfort, which produces in y’all the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.
Father, I desire that those whom you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they might see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet call, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,