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Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.
Christian ministers » Zealous » Epaphroditus
Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and minister to my wants; for he was longing after you all, and was much troubled, because ye heard that he was sick. For indeed he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. read more.
I send him therefore the more speedily, that when ye see him ye may again rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor; because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.
I send him therefore the more speedily, that when ye see him ye may again rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor; because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.
Epaphroditus » Sick at rome
because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.
for he was longing after you all, and was much troubled, because ye heard that he was sick. For indeed he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
Liberality » Should be exercised » In rendering personal services
because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.
Love to man » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.
Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and minister to my wants; for he was longing after you all, and was much troubled, because ye heard that he was sick.
Suffering » For Christ
Take, brethren, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, for an example of affliction, and of patience.
But the God of all grace, who called you to his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, will, after ye have suffered a while, himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.
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God, Glory OfAfflictions, TemporaryFaith, Testing OfEstablishingBenedictionsGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Titles And Names OfGrace, And Christian LifeInstabilityOptimismPeter, Preacher And TeacherSuffering, Encouragements InPerfectionGloryGod's Call, ResultsGod's Glory RevealedRiches Of GraceSuffering For Christ's SakeA Short Time
but, in so far as ye share in Christs sufferings, rejoice; that also at the manifestation of his glory ye may rejoice with exceeding joy. If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;
for to you it was given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but in his behalf to suffer also;
if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
For I myself will show him how great things he must suffer for my names sake.
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while becoming like him in his death,
In like manner the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedeth with groans which cannot be expressed in words.
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and fellowheirs with Christ; if indeed we are suffering with him, that we may also be glorified with him. For I esteem the sufferings of the present time as of no account, when compared with the glory which is about to be revealed to us. For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. read more.
For the creation was brought into subjection to vanity not of its own will, but by reason of him who put it into subjection, in hope that even the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption and brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation is together groaning and suffering the pains of labor, up to this time; and not only so, but even we ourselves also, though having the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption as sons, for the redemption of our body.
For the creation was brought into subjection to vanity not of its own will, but by reason of him who put it into subjection, in hope that even the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption and brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation is together groaning and suffering the pains of labor, up to this time; and not only so, but even we ourselves also, though having the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption as sons, for the redemption of our body.
and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it; being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
knowing that as ye are sharers in the sufferings, so also ye will be sharers in the comfort.
For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke," we also believe, and therefore speak; read more.
knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also with Jesus, and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the grace abounding by means of the greater number may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. For which cause we are not fainthearted; but though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are but for a time; but the things which are not seen are ever lasting.
knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also with Jesus, and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the grace abounding by means of the greater number may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. For which cause we are not fainthearted; but though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are but for a time; but the things which are not seen are ever lasting.
For indeed he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. I send him therefore the more speedily, that when ye see him ye may again rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor; read more.
because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.
because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.
so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God, for your constancy and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions which ye endure; an indication of the righteous judgment of God, by which ye will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye are also suffering;