Pray that I may make it known as I should.

Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

not like those who do their work only when someone is watching – as people-pleasers – but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.

His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

I also heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. Now the sound I heard was like that made by harpists playing their harps,

Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a vast throng, like the roar of many waters and like loud crashes of thunder. They were shouting: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the All-Powerful, reigns!

And he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?”

Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches.

and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,