¹⁵ Thanks be to God ^(A)for His indescribable gift!

The Spiritual War

10 Now ^(B)I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—^(C)who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

²¹ For ^(A)He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become ^(B)the righteousness of God in Him.

God’s Everlasting Love

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? ^(A)If God is for us, who can be against us? ^32 (B)He who did not spare His own Son, but ^(C)delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

The Humbled and Exalted Christ

^5 (A)Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, ^(B)being in the form of God, did not consider it ^[a]robbery to be equal with God, ^7 (C)but ^[b]made Himself of no reputation, taking the form ^(D)of a bondservant, and ^(E)coming in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and ^(F)became ^(G)obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

¹⁷ “Therefore My Father ^(A)loves Me, ^(B)because I lay down My life that I may take it again.