But if to keep on living here means fruit from my labor, I cannot tell which to choose.

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

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:

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labor and fellow-soldier, but your apostle, who also ministered to my want,

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.

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,

Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.