For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

So that it became clear through all the Praetorium, and to all the rest, that I was a prisoner on account of Christ;

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

To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.

Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.