I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.

And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.

Nay, even if my life is to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I rejoice, and I congratulate you all.

Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,

I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection, and to share in His sufferings and die even as He died;

For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ.

who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject all things to Himself, will transform this body of our humiliation until it resembles His own glorious body.

because even in Thessalonica you sent several times to minister to my needs.