And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

and most of the brothers and sisters, having confidence in the Lord because of my imprisonment, now more than ever dare to speak the word fearlessly.

but it is more vital for your sake that I remain in the body.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,

So I hope to send him as soon as I know more about my situation,

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be free from anxiety.

-- though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things -- indeed, I regard them as dung! -- that I may gain Christ,

For even in Thessalonica on more than one occasion you sent something for my need.