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and through him to reconcileeverything to himself,whether things on earth or things in heaven,by making peacethrough his blood, shed on the cross.

But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him—

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body, that is, the church.

the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.

I labor for this, striving with his strength that works powerfully in me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

As you know, like a father with his own children,

we encouraged, comforted, and implored each one of you to live worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

May he make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen.

that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us. This will take place at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels,

They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from his glorious strength

on that day when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at by all those who have believed, because our testimony among you was believed.

In view of this, we always pray for you that our God will make you worthy of his calling, and by his power fulfill your every desire to do good and your work produced by faith,

And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time.

and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and will bring him to nothing at the appearance of his coming.

But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in him for eternal life.