Being persuaded of this very thing, that he who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ,

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

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send, as soon as ever I know how it will go with me.

For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.

He was indeed sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, to supply your deficiency of service toward me.

Though I might have confidence: if any man think that he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day,

But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Who will transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, acccording to the mighty working, whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound, every where and in every thing I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to want.