And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.

So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;

I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.