And, this, I pray - that, your love, may be, yet more and more, pre-eminent in personal knowledge and all perception,

And so that , the most of the brethren in the Lord, assured by my bonds, are becoming more abundantly bold to be fearlessly speaking the word of God: -

But, to abide still in the flesh, is more needful for your sake;

In order that, your matter of boasting, may be more abundant in Christ Jesus, regarding me, through my own presence again with you.

So, then, my beloved - even as ye have always obeyed, not asin my presence only, but, now, much more, in my absence, with fear and trembling, your own salvation, be working out;

The more promptly, therefore, have I sent him, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and, I, the less sorrowful, may be.

Although, indeed, I, might have confidence even in flesh. If any other thinketh to have confidence in flesh, I, more: -

I know what it is even to be kept low, and I know what it is to have more than enough, - in every way, and in all things, have I been let into the secret - both to be well fed, and to be hungering, both to have more than enough, and to be coming short:

But I have all things in full, and have more than enough, I am filled, having welcomed from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, - a fragrance of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing unto God.