And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;

And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,

I am convinced of this, and so I know that I shall stay on and serve you all, to help you to develop and to be glad in your faith.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

I entreat you to make my happiness complete--Live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus,

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

in order to, somehow, be raised out of the dead [i.e., to have never ending life].

[It is] not that I have already arrived at the goal [of spiritual maturity], or have already been made perfectly [righteous], but I am pushing onward in order to take hold of what Christ Jesus took hold of me for [i.e., to receive all that Christ intended for me].

I am pushing onward toward the goal for the prize of the upward call [i.e., to heaven] from God in [fellowship with] Christ.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Nevertheless, it was right of you to share [with me] in my difficulties.

It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!