for your participation in the good-news from the first day until now.

But I want you to know, brothers, that the things in respect to me have come more for the advancement of the good-news,

For I know that this will turn out to me for salvation (through your entreaty, and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ)

according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death.

But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not.

And having been convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and will continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith.

having the same conflict such as ye saw in me, and now hear is in me.

so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly,

Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But I hope in Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be cheerful when I know the things about you.

For I have no man like-minded who will genuinely care for the things about you.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child to a father, he served with me for the good-news.

to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ,

But I rejoiced in Lord greatly that now at last ye have revived thinking about me, in which also ye were thinking, but ye lacked opportunity.

I know both how to be abased and how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be lacking.

Now to our God and Father is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.