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# I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ
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Paul may be acknowledging here that there is much suffering that he and all other Christians must endure before Christ comes again, and that Christ in a spiritual sense joins with them in experiencing these hardships. Paul certainly does not mean that Christ's sufferings alone were not enough to provide salvation for the believers.
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# I fill up in my flesh
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Paul speaks of his body as if it were a container that could hold suffering.
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# for the sake of his body, which is the church
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Paul often speaks of the church, the group of all Christian believers, as if it were Christ's body.
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