And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment

But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good-news.

according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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

If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness,

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

Because for sake of the work of the Christ he came near the point of death, handing over his life so that he might fill up the deficiency of your service toward me.

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.