Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



And I thought necessary Epaphroditus, my brother, and cooperator, and fellow soldier, and your sent, and workman of my necessity, be sent to you. Since he was longing for you all, and harassed because ye heard that he was sick. For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief. read more.
Therefore I sent him the more earnestly, that, seeing him, ye might again rejoice, and I be more free from sorrow. Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed. Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me.



But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy. If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.







And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us. For the anxious expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. read more.
For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope, That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now. And not only, but also they having the first fruits of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan in ourselves, waiting for the adoption as a son, the redemption of our body.

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And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.


For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So that death is truly energetic in us, and life in you. And having the same spirit of faith, according to that written, I believed, therefore I spake: and we believe, and therefore we speak; read more.
Knowing that he having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us by Jesus, and present us with you. For all things for you, that grace, having abounded by the many, might abound in thanksgiving to the glory of God. Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day. For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence; We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal

For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief. Therefore I sent him the more earnestly, that, seeing him, ye might again rejoice, and I be more free from sorrow. Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed. read more.
Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me.

So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure: (A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: