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

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

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

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.

Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

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.

I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.