being confident of this very thing, that he who hath wrought in you the good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

that ye may prove the things that are excellent, in order that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ;

holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews;