Study Desk

But that you also may know about all my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make everything known to you.

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;

But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know what I will choose.

But I am hard-pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better,

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

and I am confident in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.

Not that I speak from want, for I learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the stability of your faith in Christ.

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He regarded me faithful, putting me into service,

It is a trustworthy saying and deserving full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost.

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you soon,

but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

I am grateful to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I unceasingly remember you in my prayers night and day,

being reminded of the unhypocritical faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that it is in you as well.

For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

yet for love's sake I rather plead with you—since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—

I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well).