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

the one, from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall in nothing be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall 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 it be to live in flesh, this is to me a fruit of labor; and what I shall choose I know not;

If there is, therefore, any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affections and compassions,

fill ye up my joy, that ye think the same thing; having the same love; united in soul; minding the one thing;

holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.

Yea, I request you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, who, indeed, labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and my remaining fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.