that ye might accept things most excellent, that ye might be pure and such as should hurt no man's conscience, until the day of Christ;

I sent him therefore the diligentlier, that when ye should see him, ye might rejoice again, and I might be the less sorrowful.

though I have whereof I might rejoice in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, much more I:

Yea I think all things but loss for that excellent knowledge's sake of Christ Jesus my Lord. For whom I have counted all thing loss, and do judge them but dung, that I might win Christ,

and might be found in him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law: But that which springeth of the faith which is in Christ. I mean, the righteousness which cometh of God through faith

in knowing him, and the virtue of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his passions, that I might be conformable unto his death,

if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.