However, it is good ¹  to be sought eagerly ²  for a good purpose ³  at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

I beg you, brothers and sisters, ¹  become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

But when the one ¹  who set me apart from birth ²  and called me by his grace was pleased

and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. ¹  Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, ²  as though I were Christ Jesus himself! ³ 

I have been crucified with Christ, ¹  and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So ²  the life I now live in the body, ³  I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, ⁴  who loved me and gave himself for me.