¹⁶ This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.^(A) And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.^(B)

³⁰ because he almost died for the work of Christ. He risked his life to make up for the help you yourselves could not give me.^(A)

¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators^(A) of God’s churches in Judea,^(B) which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people^(C) the same things those churches suffered from the Jews

The Collection for the Lord’s People

16 Now about the collection^(A) for the Lord’s people:^(B) Do what I told the Galatian^(C) churches to do.

Concerning Change of Status

¹⁷ Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them.^(A) This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.^(B)

⁷ Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.

⁵ So the churches were strengthened^(A) in the faith and grew daily in numbers.^(B)

⁴¹ He went through Syria^(A) and Cilicia,^(B) strengthening the churches.^(C)

¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^(A)