Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was like large drops of blood falling down to the ground.

My little children, with whom I am again in pain till Christ is formed in you,

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear of in me.

but having suffered before, and been injuriously treated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much contention.

Who in the days of his flesh having offered both prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, with loud cries and tears, [and being heard and delivered] from fear,??8 although he was a Son, learned obedience from what he suffered,

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For I bear him witness that he has great zeal for you and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

saying, What you see write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God,

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For if I am absent in the flesh, still I am present in spirit with you, rejoicing and beholding your order and the strength of your faith in Christ.

And now, behold, I know that you all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom shall see my face no more.

whom not having seen you love, in whom believing though now you see him not you rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious,