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raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus,(A)

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Thanksgiving. (A)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 God of all encouragement: Paul expands a standard Jewish blessing so as to state the theme of the paragraph. The theme of “encouragement” or “consolation” (paraklēsis) occurs ten times in this opening, against a background formed by multiple references to “affliction” and “suffering.”