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Because we are parts of his body.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:

Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.

Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:

Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.

That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.

And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.

In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;