⁴¹ “What do you want me to do for you?”

“Lord, I want to see,” he replied.

⁸ God can testify^(A) how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

⁹ But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry,^(A) for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

²⁹ The bride belongs to the bridegroom.^(A) The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.^(B)

²⁵ And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.^(A)

²⁸ ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a](A) As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’^[b]