For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me.

But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.