28So we tell others about Christ, warning them and teaching them with all the wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ. 29That's why I work and struggle so hard, depending on Christ's mighty power that works within me.
26This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to God's people. 27For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ is for you Gentiles too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.
24I am glad when I suffer for you in my body, for I am participating in the sufferings of Christ that continue for his body, the church. 25God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you.
23But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don't drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God's servant to proclaim it.
21This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from Him by your evil thoughts and actions. 22Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
19For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, 20and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ's blood on the cross.