having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you being all partakers of my grace.

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

What then? nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached, and in this I rejoice. But I also will rejoice;

for I know that this will result in salvation to me, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

But if to live in the flesh [is allowed me], I have this fruit of my work, and which I shall choose I know not.

But I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far better;

And fully believing this, I know that I shall continue, and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of the faith,

terrified in nothing by the adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God;

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,

Let us, as many as are perfect therefore, be of this mind; and if any one thinks at all otherwise, God shall also reveal this to you;

but in what we have attained, in this let us walk.