I do not give you commands as if I were some Exhortation to Unity one great, for though I am a prisoner for the Name, I am not yet perfect in Jesus Christ; for now I do but begin to be a disciple, and I speak to you as to my fellow learners. For I needed to be prepared Literally anointed. The allusion is to the preparation of a gymnast or gladiator. by you in faith, exhortation, endurance, long-suffering.