And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,

And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more:

Being confident in thine obedience I wrote to thee, knowing that thou will do above what I say.