For in him all the fullness of deity lives ¹  in bodily form,

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. ¹  And a voice came from heaven, “You are my one dear Son; ²  in you I take great delight.” ³ 

because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak ¹  and his speech is of no account.” ² 

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

For “physical exercise ¹  has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ¹  but by the power of an indestructible life.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

Remove ¹  your hand ²  far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror. ³ 

A person’s spirit ¹  sustains him through sickness – but who can bear ²  a crushed spirit? ³ 

and do not present your members to sin as instruments ¹  to be used for unrighteousness, ²  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ³  to be used for righteousness.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) ¹  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man ¹  has a discharge ²  from his body, ³  his discharge is unclean.

the one who is sick in her menstruation, the one with a discharge, whether male or female, ¹  and a man ²  who has sexual intercourse with an unclean woman.’”

When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick. ¹ 

For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. ¹  Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

At that very time ¹  Jesus ²  cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, ³  and evil spirits, and granted ⁴  sight to many who were blind.

This is the reason ¹  I do my best to always ²  have a clear ³  conscience toward God and toward people. ⁴ 

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, ¹  and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment. ²