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

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in [the] Lord: to write the same things to you, to me [is] not irksome, and for you safe.

For *we* are the circumcision, who worship by [the] Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.

I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they [are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:

for *our* commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,

So that, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand fast in [the] Lord, beloved.

For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things [are] true, whatsoever things [are] noble, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] amiable, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.

Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me *I* have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.

for also in Thessalonica once and even twice ye sent to me for my need.

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ continually [when] praying for you,

on account of the hope which [is] laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,

even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

For this reason *we* also, from the day we heard [of your faith and love], do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in light,

because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.