^{21 Ref} And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

^{22 Ref} yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

^{23 Ref} if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

^{24 Ref} Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;