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

and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: