¹³ So, then, I ask you not to be discouraged^(A) over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.^(B)

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²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings^(A) for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body,^(B) that is, the church.

⁹ for which I suffer to the point of being bound like a criminal. But the word of God is not bound.