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

and many of the brethren in the Lord, encouraged by my bonds, are much more bold to publish the word without fear.

but to abide in the flesh is more necessary for you.

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed the gospel, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence; be still working out your own salvation though with fear and trembling:

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

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks he hath whereof to trust in the flesh, I more: