having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,

who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of the power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.