Never in the slightest degree be frightened by your opponents, for such fearlessness will be strong evidence to them of their impending destruction, but to you a sure sign, and that from God, of your salvation.

I hope, with the approval of the Lord Jesus, soon to send Timothy to you, so that I too may be cheered on getting the news about you.

But you know his tested character, how like a son in fellowship with his father he has toiled with me like a slave in preaching the good news.

So I hope to send him to you just as soon as I can see how my case is going to turn out.

Really, I am trusting that by the help of the Lord I soon shall come myself.

circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee;