More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.

So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

And indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow.

for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death;