According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

This also is of God. For to you it is given, with regard to Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him:

Look not every one at his own things, but every one also at the things of others.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above every name,

Now I trust in the Lord Jesus, to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged, when I know your state.

But I trust in the Lord, that I also myself shall come shortly.

I have sent him therefore the more willingly, that ye seeing him again may rejoice, and that I also may be the less sorrowful.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected: but I pursue, if I may apprehend that, for which I was also apprehended by Christ Jesus.

who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

And I intreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, help those women who laboured together with me in the gospel, with both Clement and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Which also ye have learned and received, and heard and seen in me; these do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful; but ye lacked opportunity.