without being under any the least apprehension from your adversaries: this will be to them a sign of their ruin, and to you of salvation, by the divine appointment.

However, I hope by the favour of the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you very soon, that I may have some encouragement by knowing the state of your affairs:

you know he has stood the test, and has serv'd with me in the gospel, as a son serves with his father.

I hope therefore to send him to you as soon as I find what turn my affairs shall take:

nay, I trust in the Lord, that I myself too shall visit you very soon.

the justification which God grants to those who acknowledge Christ and the power of his resurrection, who suffer after his example, and die to sin, as he died to the world,

practise what I have taught, what you have learnt of me, what you have heard me preach, and seen me practise. this do, and the God of peace will then be with you.