Study it in the app“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of the Messiah for the sake of his body, which is the assembly,”
NowΝῦνI rejoiceχαίρωinἐνmy sufferingsτοῖς παθήμασινforὑπὲρyour sake,ὑμῶνandκαὶI fill upἀνταναπληρῶinἐνmy fleshτῇ σαρκί μουwhat is lackingτὰ ὑστερήματαof the afflictionsτῶν θλίψεωνof the Messiahτοῦ Χριστοῦfor the sake ofὑπὲρhis body,τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦwhichὅisἐστινthe assembly,ἡ ἐκκλησία
rejoice
To feel joy and gladness about something.
Where else “chairō” appearssuffering
What one has to endure.
Where else “pathēmasin” appearsfill up
Fill up on one's part what is lacking.
Where else “antanaplērō” appearsflesh
The soft part of the body, of people or animals; also the body itself.
Where else “sarki” appearslack, need
What is lacking, need, poverty; also a shortcoming.
Where else “hysterēmata” appearstrouble, affliction
Affliction, distress, pressure.
Where else “thlipseōn” appearsMessiah
Messiah: literally "anointed", the king or envoy God consecrates with oil. It is a title, not a surname; in Hebrew, mashiach.
Where else “Christou” appearsbody
The person in his physical part, living or dead.
Where else “sōmatos” appearsbe
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “estin” appearschurch
Those who believe in Jesus, gathered as his people.
Where else “ekklēsia” appearsIt can be understood as referring to the sufferings that his body, the assembly, keeps going through for him.
23if indeed you continue in the faith, founded and steadfast and not shifting from the hope of the good news that you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.
24 · This verse (above)
25of which I became a servant according to the administration of God that was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,
