I no longer want to live in merely human fashion. This will happen if you desire it. Desire it, so that you too may be desired.
I ask you in this short letter: believe me. Jesus Christ will make it clear to you that I speak truly—the mouth that does not lie, in whom the Father truly spoke.
Pray for me, so that I may attain God. I wrote to you not according to the flesh but according to the mind of God. If I suffer, you have desired it; if I am rejected, you have hated me.