Now it is my purpose to make clear to you, brothers, that the cause of the good news has been helped by my experiences;

Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:

Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.