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He who has been a thief must steal no more, but, instead of that, should work with his own hands in honest industry, so that he may have something of which he can give the needy a share.

Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children.

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power which His supreme might imparts.

For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ--not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf;

each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.

Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.

But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

I send him because he is longing to see you all and is distressed at your having heard of his illness.

because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me.

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;