My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face.
Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.
We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.
God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God—given to me for you—in order to complete the word of God
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body—for the sake of his body, the church—what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him—
And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,
and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross-through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
