For I wish you to know how great contest I have for you, and them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest.

Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith: