- And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
- yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--
- if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
- Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.
- Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,
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- 你們從前與 神隔絕、因著惡行、心裡與他為敵.
- 但如今他藉著基督的肉身受死、叫你們與自己和好、都成了聖潔、沒有瑕疵、無可責備、把你們引到自己面前。
- 只要你們在所信的道上恆心、根基穩固、堅定不移、不至被引動失去〔原文作離開〕福音的盼望.這福音就是你們所聽過的、也是傳與普天下萬人聽的.〔萬人原文作凡受造的〕我保羅也作了這福音的執事。
- 現在我為你們受苦、倒覺歡樂、並且為基督的身體、就是為教會、要在我肉身上補滿基督患難的缺欠。
- 我照 神為你們所賜我的職份、作了教會的執事、要把 神的道理傳得全備.
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