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:

and very many of our brethren in the Lord, assuming confidence from my chains, are more abundantly bold, fearlessly to preach the word.

For indeed he greatly longed after you all, and was very sorry that ye had heard that he had been sick.

WHEREFORE, my brethren, beloved, and very dear to me, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, O beloved.