who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul?

so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you,

If there is any question about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; if there is any question about our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

Therefore show them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.

And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak.

As a result God exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

You learned the gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave – a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf –

For I can testify that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.