For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

So I hope to send him as soon as I know more about my situation,

but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.

But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

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 then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,