Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

But now, if life in the flesh, if this be the fruit of my toil??hat to choose I do not know,

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

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

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Since he hath been longing to see, you all, and hath been in great distress, because ye had heard he was sick; -

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

For, our citizenship, in the heavens, hath its rise; wherefore, a Saviour also, do we ardently await, - The Lord Jesus Christ, -

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