Because to you it was granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,

Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus,

since he was longing for you all, and distressed because ye heard that he was sick.

For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ.

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.