Grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank God, for your remembrance of me,

he who has begun this good work in you will bring it to perfection against the appearance of Christ. it is but just

for God is my witness, that I love you with a christian tenderness.

abounding in good works by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

who tho' he was the image of God, did not affect to appear with divine majesty, but divested himself thereof,

wherefore God has highly exalted and given him a name, which is above every name;

and that every nation should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of God the father.

for it is God that influences your desires and endeavours, out of his benevolence to you.

that you may be without reproach, the inoffensive spotless children of God in the midst of a depraved and perverse generation (among whom you should shine as stars in the world,

but God had pity on him, and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

for we are the genuine sons of Abraham, who worship God in the spiritual manner, and value no other dependance than that on Jesus Christ, without confiding in any external advantages:

the justification which God grants to those who acknowledge Christ and the power of his resurrection, who suffer after his example, and die to sin, as he died to the world,

I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

Let us therefore, who have been instructed, have this in view: and if you are sollicitous about any thing else, God will reveal even that unto you.

the Lord is coming: be not in any manner of sollicitude, but in all your occasions lay your requests before God by prayer and supplication accompany'd by thanksgiving.

and the favour of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall keep your hearts and mind attach'd to Jesus Christ.

practise what I have taught, what you have learnt of me, what you have heard me preach, and seen me practise. this do, and the God of peace will then be with you.

I have now receiv'd the whole, and have more than sufficient: I am loaded with the presents you sent by Epaphroditus, which I have receiv'd as grateful incense, as a sacrifice which God accepts and approves.

for which may my God crown all your desires with glory by Christ Jesus.

to God our father be glory for ever. amen.