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This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

But that ye also may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:

but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

But if to live in the flesh,—if this is the fruit of my work, then what I shall choose I wot not.

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

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

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.

but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;

for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.