Colossians 2:1

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, an...

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.