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Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;