For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,
To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.
To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Origin
Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you
saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardi
They were especially grieved by his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for
In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who cou
My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
Now I know that none of you among whom I have preached the kingdom will see my face again.
For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an in
Greet the brothers in Laodicea, as well as Nympha and the church that meets at her house.
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
As you are aware, we had already endured suffering and shameful treatment in Philippi. But in the face of strong opposit
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.