Colossians 1:23-25

New Catholic Bible

²³ However, you must persevere in the faith, firmly grounded and steadfast in your belief, and never allowing yourselves to drift away from the hope of the gospel that you accepted and that has now been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, the gospel of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

²⁴ Christ’s Suffering in His People. I find great joy at present in suffering for you, and in my own body I am completing the sufferings that still must be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church.^{[a] 25} I was made a minister of that Church, with the commission given to me by God to make fully known to you the word of God,