being confident of this, that He who hath begun a good work in you will continue to perfect it till the day of Jesus Christ.

As it is just for me to think this of you all, because ye have me in your heart, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, being all of you partakers of the same grace with me.

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

What then? yet every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached: and in this I rejoice, yea and I will rejoice;

for I know that this shall turn to my safety through your prayer, and the aid of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: and if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:

And as I am confident of this, I know that I shall abide and shall continue with you all, for your improvement and the joy of your faith:

and are in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is a demonstration of ruin to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, attend to this: and if in any thing ye think differently, God will reveal this also unto you.