And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things. concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news;

Fill ye up my joy, that ye may have the same in mind, having the same love, unanimous, being one in mind.

Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation.

For I have none having a like soul, who naturally will have care for the things concerning you.

And I have trusted in the Lord that I myself also shall come quickly.

For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief.

Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more:

But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ.

But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,

Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you.

Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.

Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.

And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.