Chapter 8
1 I no longer want to live according to human standards. This will be so if you are willing. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, since Christ lives in me.
2 In a few lines I beg you: don’t refuse me. Believe me, because I love Jesus, who was delivered up for me.
3 What shall I give back to the Lord for all that he has given back to me? God himself, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ will make these things clear to you—that I speak truly.
4 And you, pray together with me, so that I may reach the goal in the Holy Spirit. I did not write to you according to the flesh, but according to the mind of God. If I suffer, you have loved me; if I am rejected, you have hated me.