I never think of you without thanking my God,

and I never pray without praying for you all with joy, for your liberality to the gospel,

For God is my witness how I never stop yearning for all of you with the affection Christ Jesus inspires.

The outcome of all this, I know, will be my release, as you continue to pray for me, and as I am provided with the Spirit of Jesus Christ ??20 my eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. Whether that means life or death, no matter!

in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death.

Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to them a sure token of impending destruction, but to you it will be a sure token of your salvation--a token coming from God.

never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

as you hold out [i.e., offer to people] the message of [never ending] life. Then I will have something to boast about on the day of Christ's [return, See 1:6], that I had not run the race for nothing nor had worked for nothing.

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

Never worry about anything. Instead, in every situation let your petitions be made known to God through prayers and requests, with thanksgiving.

It was a great joy to me in the Lord that your care for me could revive again; for what you lacked was never the care but the chance of showing it.