I return thanks to my God for all your remembrance,

Always in all my prayer for you all with joy making prayer,

For your mutual participation in the good news from the first day until now;

As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me.

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;

And some of love, knowing that I am placed for justification of the good news:

For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice.

For I know that this shall be turned to me for salvation by your prayer, and the furnishing more of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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

For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)

And to tarry yet longer in the flesh is more necessary for you.

And confident in this, I know that I shall remain, and shall remain near together with you all for your advancement and joy of faith:

That your boasting may abound in Jesus Christ in me, for my coming again to you.

For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;

For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus;

Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation.

For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.

Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.

For I have none having a like soul, who naturally will have care for the things concerning you.

For they all seek the things of themselves, and not the things of Christ Jesus.

Since he was longing for you all, and harassed because ye heard that he was sick.

For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief.

Therefore I sent him the more earnestly, that, seeing him, ye might again rejoice, and I be more free from sorrow.

Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me.

Look out for dogs, look out for evil workmen, look out for the incision.

For we are the circumcision, serving God in spirit, and boasting in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh.

For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with.

But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ.

But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.

I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.

(For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ:

For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself.

Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand ye in the Lord, dearly beloved.

And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that once already ye recovered new vigor; for thinking of me, upon whom ye were thinking, and ye had not time.

Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.

I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.

For also in Thessalonica, and once, and twice, ye sent to my necessity.

And to God and our Father the glory for the times of times. Amen.