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because we are parts of his Body.

"Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and remain with his wife, and the two will become one."

However, the text also applies to each of you individually: let each man love his wife as he does himself, and see that the wife respects her husband.

Finally, grow powerful in union with the Lord, in union with his mighty strength!

because for the Messiah's sake it has been granted to you not only to trust in him but also to suffer on his behalf,

But you know his character, that like a child with his father he slaved with me to advance the Good News.

For he risked his life and nearly died working for the Messiah, in order to give me the help you were not in a position to give.

Yes, I gave it all up in order to know him, that is, to know the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings as I am being conformed to his death,

He will change the bodies we have in this humble state and make them like his glorious body, using the power which enables him to bring everything under his control.

Moreover, my God will fill every need of yours according to his glorious wealth, in union with the Messiah Yeshua.

Therefore, from the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all the wisdom and understanding which the Spirit gives;

We pray that you will be continually strengthened with all the power that comes from his glorious might; so that you will be able to persevere and be patient in any situation, joyfully

giving thanks to the Father for having made you fit to share in the inheritance of his people in the light.

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son.

It is through his Son that we have redemption — that is, our sins have been forgiven.

For it pleased God to have his full being live in his Son

and through his Son to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace through him, through having his Son shed his blood by being executed on a stake.

he has now reconciled in the Son's physical body through his death; in order to present you holy and without defect or reproach before himself —

I rejoice in my present sufferings on your behalf! Yes, I am completing in my own flesh what has been lacking of the Messiah's afflictions, on behalf of his Body, the Messianic Community.

Don't worry — whoever is doing wrong will be paid in kind for his wrong, and there is no favoritism shown.