These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news.

But the others are preaching the Christ not sincerely but for their own ends, imagining that they are making my imprisonment harder to bear.

For they are all looking out for their own interests, not for those of Jesus Christ.

They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.

And I beg you, my true comrade, help them, for they toiled at my side in spreading the good news, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.