For God is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself.

Never for a moment falter before your opponents, for your fearlessness will be a sure sign for them of their coming destruction, but to you it will be an omen, from God himself, of your deliverance.

When he had assumed human form, he still further humbled himself and carried his obedience so far as to die, and to die upon the cross.

He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.