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For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better,

And being persuaded of this, I know that I will remain and will continue with you all for your advancement and joy of faith,

For think this within you, which mind was also in Christ Jesus,

for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for the sake of His good pleasure.

holding up the Word of Life, for a boast to me in the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, nor labored in vain.

For I have no one like-minded, who genuinely will care for the things about you.

For all seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus.

But you know the proof of him, that as a child to a father, he served with me for the gospel.

since he was longing for you all and has been troubled because you heard that he was sick.

For indeed he was sick, coming near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not only on him, but also me, lest I should have grief on grief.

For the rest, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you truly is not tiresome to me, but safe for you.

Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil workers, look out for the concision party .

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, and who glory in Christ Jesus, and who do not trust in flesh.

But, no, rather I also count all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them to be trash, that I might gain Christ

I press on after a mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Be fellow-imitators of me, brothers, and consider those walking this way, even as you have us for a pattern.

For many walk as hostile to the cross of Christ, of whom I often told you, and now even weeping I say it,

For our citizenship is in Heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

who will transform our body of humiliation, for it to be conformed to His body of glory, according to the working of Him to be able even to subject all things under Himself.

So as, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, beloved ones.