in this way it has become well known throughout the Imperial Guard and to all the rest here that I am a prisoner in the service of Christ,

For it has been graciously granted to you for Christ's sake, not only to trust in Him but also to suffer for Him,

This is why God has highly exalted Him, and given Him the name that is above every other name,

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

But you know his tested character, how like a son in fellowship with his father he has toiled with me like a slave in preaching the good news.

for he has been longing to see you and has been homesick because you have heard that he was sick.

He will so change the outward appearance of our lowly bodies that they will be like His glorious body, by the exertion of the power He has to subject everything to Himself.