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.

who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be as God.

that ye may be blameless and inoffensive, the children of God without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

For I have no one of a like spirit, who will with a kind of natural affection take care of your affairs.

However, I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother, and fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, who ministred to my wants:

For we are of the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh.

Yea doubtless and I count all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and I account them but dung, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him,

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction,

whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven,

from whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ: who will change our vile body,

I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that your care for me has now flourished again; for whom ye were indeed careful before, but ye wanted opportunity.