I now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of His body, which is the church,

To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand complete and full-grown in all the will of God;

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. So she called his name Naphtali.

And Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the dawn began to rise.

And He said, Let Me go, for the dawn has risen. But he said, I will not let You go unless You bless me!

And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have persevered with God and with men, and have prevailed.

And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel: For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered.

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he contended with God.

Yes, he wept and pleaded with Him, and he contended with the Angel and prevailed. He found Him at Bethel, and He spoke with us there,

And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

My little children, for whom I travail again until Christ is formed in you,

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak the gospel of God to you in much conflict.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who had the power to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,

for I bear him witness that he has a great zeal for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas and the church that is in his house.

Now when this epistle is read among you, see that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last; and, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:

So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

And behold now, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they would see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him yet, believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,