You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed ¹  in your struggle against sin.

since you are encountering ¹  the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing. ² 

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” ¹  So she named him Naphtali. ² 

For our struggle ¹  is not against flesh and blood, ²  but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, ³  against the spiritual forces ⁴  of evil in the heavens. ⁵ 

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, ¹  and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face. ² 

Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. ¹  I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. ² 

“Does not humanity have hard service ¹  on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man? ² 

If a man dies, will he live again? ¹  All the days of my hard service ²  I will wait ³  until my release comes. ⁴ 

If I am guilty, ¹  why then ²  weary myself ³  in vain? ⁴ 

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, ¹  through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

In fact this is why ¹  we work hard and struggle, ²  because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, ³  especially of believers.

It hurls itself against him without pity ¹  as he flees headlong from its power.

If you lay your hand on it, you will remember ¹  the fight, and you will never do it again!

Those who forsake the law ¹  praise the wicked, ²  but those who keep the law contend ³  with them.

Toward this goal ¹  I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully ²  works in me.

How long must I worry, ¹  and suffer in broad daylight? ²  How long will my enemy gloat over me? ³ 

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, ¹  in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, ²  in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

Moab ¹  will spread out its hands in the middle of it, ²  just as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim; the Lord ³  will bring down Moab’s ⁴  pride as it spreads its hands. ⁵ 

Yes, I say also to you, true companion, ¹  help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry ²  along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.