TSK · Colossians 1:24

They said to him,“We are able.” Then Jesus said to them,“You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience,

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

Paul’s Relationship to the Divine Mystery For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God’s message is not imprisoned!