I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

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"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

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eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory?

For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.