Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

And he was ill, nearly dead with illness. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me, to save me from having one sorrow upon another.

for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.

Well then, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. I am repeating this word 'rejoice' in my letter, but that does not tire me and it is the safe course for you. ??2 Beware of these dogs, these wicked workmen, the incision-party!

Not that I have already attained this or am already perfect, but I press forward to appropriate it, because I have been appropriated myself by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,

Not that I complain of want, for I have learned how to be content wherever I am.

It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!