Now I want you to rest assured, brothers, that those things which have befallen me have actually resulted in the progress of the good news;

But if to keep on living here means fruit from my labor, I cannot tell which to choose.

which will result in your joy; so that, through union with Christ Jesus, you may have more than sufficient ground for boasting about me, through my being with you again.

since you are having the same struggle that you once saw me have and which you hear that I am still having.

so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue

and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.

It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember me to every one of God's people in union with Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me wish to be remembered to you.

All God's people wish to be remembered to you, but more especially the members of the Emperor's household.