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whom I have sent to you for this very thing, that ye may know of our affairs and that he may encourage your hearts.

I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,

constantly in my every supplication, making the supplication for you all with joy,

as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have *me* in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

For God is my witness how I long after you all in [the] bowels of Christ Jesus.

that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.

These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the glad tidings;

but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.

for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation, through your supplication and [the] supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

For for me to live [is] Christ, and to die gain;

but if to live in flesh [is my lot], this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.

But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, [for] [it is] very much better,

but remaining in the flesh [is] more necessary for your sakes;

and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in faith;

because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

For let this mind be in you which [was] also in Christ Jesus;

for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to [his] good pleasure.

holding forth [the] word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.