filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness – a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung! – that I may gain Christ,

For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace together with me.