^10 (A)always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, ^(B)that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

^5 (A)For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

¹¹ This is a faithful saying:

⁸ Now ^(A)if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

¹³ but rejoice ^(A)to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that ^(B)when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

^4 (A)For though He was crucified in weakness, yet ^(B)He lives by the power of God. For ^(C)we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.

⁵ For as ^(A)the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our ^[a]consolation also abounds through Christ.

Sacrificial Service for Christ

^24 (A)I now rejoice in my sufferings ^(B)for you, and fill up in my flesh ^(C)what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for ^(D)the sake of His body, which is the church,

¹⁰ that I may know Him and the ^(A)power of His resurrection, and ^(B)the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, ¹¹ if, by any means, I may ^(C)attain^[a] to the resurrection from the dead.

⁹ Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should ^(A)not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,