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

agreeably to that expectation and persuasion I have, that I shall not labour in vain; but as I always have, so I shall still glorify Christ in my body, whether it be by life or by death: for if I live, I live to Christ;

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:

But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

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

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

Ye know the proof of him, how that as a son with the father, so with me bestowed he his labour upon the gospel.

Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

Yea, and I beseech thee faithful yokefellow, help the women which laboured with me in the gospel, and with Clement also, and with others, my labour fellows, whose names are in the book of life.