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But I feel that I must send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, whom you sent to look after my needs. For he has been longing to see you all, and has been greatly distressed because you heard that he was sick. For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another. read more.
So I am all the more eager to send him, so that you may have the pleasure of seeing him again, and I may feel more relieved. So give him a hearty Christian welcome, and value men like him very highly, for he came near dying for the Lord's work, and risked his life to make up for what was lacking in the service you have done me.
So I am all the more eager to send him, so that you may have the pleasure of seeing him again, and I may feel more relieved. So give him a hearty Christian welcome, and value men like him very highly, for he came near dying for the Lord's work, and risked his life to make up for what was lacking in the service you have done me.
Disease » Good men afflicted with » The righteous suffer from
Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died, and they had washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs.
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Erastus stayed in Corinth. I left Trophimus sick at Miletus.
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Now a man named Lazarus was sick; he lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
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For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another.
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Epaphroditus » Sick at rome
for he came near dying for the Lord's work, and risked his life to make up for what was lacking in the service you have done me.
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For he has been longing to see you all, and has been greatly distressed because you heard that he was sick. For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another.
God's Mercy » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another.
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Sickness » The righteous suffer from
Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died, and they had washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs.
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Erastus stayed in Corinth. I left Trophimus sick at Miletus.
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Now a man named Lazarus was sick; he lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
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For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another.
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Sickness » God » Exhibits his mercy in healing
For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another.
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Suffering » For Christ
As an example, brothers, of ill-treatment patiently endured, take the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
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And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.
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but be glad that you are in a measure sharing the sufferings of the Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may be triumphantly happy. If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.
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For you have been granted the privilege not only of trusting in Christ but of suffering for him.
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If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!
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For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."
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I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death,
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In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself pleads for us with inexpressible yearnings,
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and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too. For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us. For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed. read more.
For it was not the fault of creation that it was frustrated; it was by the will of him who condemned it to that, and in the hope that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now. More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.
For it was not the fault of creation that it was frustrated; it was by the will of him who condemned it to that, and in the hope that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now. More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.
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we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it, when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.
My hopes for you are unshaken. For I know that just as surely as you share my sufferings, just so surely you will share my comfort.
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For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature. So it is death that operates in my case, but life that operates in yours. In the same spirit of faith as his who said, "I believed, and so I spoke," I too believe, and so I speak, read more.
sure that he who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise me also like Jesus, and bring me side by side with you into his presence. For it is all for your benefit, in order that as God's favor reaches greater and greater numbers, it may result in more and more thanksgiving in praise of God. So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day. For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison, because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.
sure that he who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise me also like Jesus, and bring me side by side with you into his presence. For it is all for your benefit, in order that as God's favor reaches greater and greater numbers, it may result in more and more thanksgiving in praise of God. So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day. For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison, because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.
For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another. So I am all the more eager to send him, so that you may have the pleasure of seeing him again, and I may feel more relieved. So give him a hearty Christian welcome, and value men like him very highly, read more.
for he came near dying for the Lord's work, and risked his life to make up for what was lacking in the service you have done me.
for he came near dying for the Lord's work, and risked his life to make up for what was lacking in the service you have done me.
As a result, we ourselves speak of you with pride in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in the face of all the persecutions and troubles you are having to endure. This is a proof of God's justice in judging, and it is to prove you worthy of the Kingdom of God, for the sake of which you are suffering,