Be,
with others,
imitators of me
sisters / brothers
and pay attention
to those who ‘walk’ like this
as you have an example in us.
For many ‘walk’ whom I have often spoken you about
and now
crying
I speak,
the enemies of the cross of Christ,
whose end is destruction
whose God is their stomach
and they glory in their shame
they are people whose minds are set on earthly things.
For our ‘place of citizenship’ exists in the heavens,
from where indeed we eagerly wait as saviour,
the Lord Jesus Christ.
who will transform the body of our lowly state
(in)to sharing the likeness of the body of his glorious state
according to the working of his power
also to subject all things to himself.
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.