I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.

I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

that by revelation the divine secret was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly.

For this reason I kneel before the Father,

I thank my God every time I remember you.

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

though I am confident in the Lord that I too will be coming to see you soon.

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

I appeal to Euodia and to Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers,

For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.

For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.