Some indeed actually preach Christ out of envy and contentiousness but there are also others who do it from good will.

maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.

but trusting, as I do, in the Lord, I believe that I shall myself also come to you before long.

I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,

I do not refer to this through fear of privation, for (for my part)

Not that I crave for gifts from you, but I do want to see abundant fruit bring you honour.