holding out and offering to everyone the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to rejoice greatly because I did not run [my race] in vain nor labor without result.

However, I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, [who has been] my brother and companion and fellow soldier, who was also sent as your messenger to take care of my needs.

But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: and if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:

Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds:

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

Yes, I ask thee also, genuine yokefellow, help them--the women who labored with me in the good-news--with Clement also, and the rest of my co-workmen whose names are in the book of life.

Only let your conversation be, as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may yet hear of you, that ye continue in one spirit, and in one soul laboring as we do to maintain the faith of the gospel,