And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.

That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;