Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

God is my witness how I yearn for you all in the tenderness of Christ Jesus.

who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,

but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.

More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.

And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

So I hope to send him, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me;

for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness.

And indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow.

for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

For there are many??s I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears??ho live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

who will change the fashion of the body of our abasement into the likeness of his glorious body by the energy with which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.