¹⁸ What then? Nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached. And I rejoice in this. Yet, also I will rejoice. ¹⁹ For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet I do not know what I shall choose. ²³ For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. ²⁴ But to remain in the flesh is more needful for you. ²⁵ And having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of faith, ²⁶ so that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

²⁷ Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel, ²⁸ and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. ²⁹ For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake, ³⁰ having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.