For I am certain that he who has begun the good work in you will finish it for the Day of Jesus Christ.

Now I want to assure you, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in furthering the preaching of the good news.

These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news.

That is why God has so greatly exalted him, and given him the name above all others,

But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

For he has been longing to see you all, and has been greatly distressed because you heard that he was sick.

He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.