¹³ Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die^(A) in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”^(B)

²⁴ However, I consider my life worth nothing to me;^(A) my only aim is to finish the race^(B) and complete the task^(C) the Lord Jesus has given me^(D)—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.^(E)

¹⁷ But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering^(A) on the sacrifice^(B) and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.^(C)

²⁰ I eagerly expect^(A) and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage^(B) so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body,^(C) whether by life or by death.^{(D) 21} For to me, to live is Christ^(E) and to die is gain.

⁶ For I am already being poured out like a drink offering,^(A) and the time for my departure is near.^(B)

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?^(A) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?^{(B) 36} As it is written:

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors^(D) through him who loved us.^(E)

Paul’s Labor for the Church

²⁴ Now I rejoice^(A) in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions,^(B) for the sake of his body, which is the church.^(C)

¹⁰ We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,^(A) so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.^{(B) 11} For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake,^(C) so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. ¹² So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.^(D)

¹³ It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”^[a](E) Since we have that same spirit of^[b] faith,^(F) we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴ because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead^(G) will also raise us with Jesus^(H) and present us with you to himself.^{(I) 15} All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving^(J) to overflow to the glory of God.

¹⁶ Therefore we do not lose heart.^(K) Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly^(L) we are being renewed^(M) day by day. ¹⁷ For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.^(N)