being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ-- to the glory and praise of God.

Now I would have you know, brethren, that what I have gone through has turned out to the furtherance of the Good News rather than otherwise.

and the greater part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord through my imprisonment, now speak of God's Message without fear, more boldly than ever.

For I know that it will result in my salvation through your prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

as to zeal, a persecutor of the Church; as to the righteousness which comes through Law, blameless.

not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ--the righteousness which comes from God through faith.

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

I have strength for anything through Him who gives me power.