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

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

So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

Therefore I the more diligently, in order that, seeing him, you may rejoice again, and I may not be without sorrow.

even though also having confidence in the flesh. If any other one seems to have confidence in the flesh, I the more: