It is but just that I should be thus mindful of you all, because I have you in my heart, and because in these fetters of mine and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all my fellow partners in the privilege.

so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

Thus it is generally known throughout the Imperial Guard and elsewhere that it is for the sake of Christ that I am in prison,

Thus you will have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus over me ??over my return to you.

and everyone should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, and thus glorify God the Father.

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

So I am specially eager to send him, that you may be glad when you see him again, and thus my own anxiety may be lightened.

and may be found in Him [believing and relying on Him], not having any righteousness of my own derived from [my obedience to] the Law and its rituals, but [possessing] that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith.

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus wise minded: and if ye be otherwise minded, I pray God open even this unto you.

become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;

So then, my beloved and greatly desired brothers, my joy and crown, thus stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.