And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

These latter out of their love, because they know that I am set here for the defense of the gospel;

So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

But now, if life in the flesh, if this be the fruit of my toil??hat to choose I do not know,

but for your sakes it is more necessary that I should still live on in the body.

And because I am convinced of this, I know that I shall live, and go on working side by side with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

If then there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any companionship of the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

I entreat you to make my joy overflow by living in harmony; possessing the same love, and with one soul united in one purpose.

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,

for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

Brothers, be comrades in imitating me, and study those whose life and walk is according to the pattern I have set you.

For there are many??s I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears??ho live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

yes, and I beg you also, my true yokefellow, to help them; for these women shared my toil in the furtherance of the gospel, together with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.