For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed –

But I will come to you after I have gone through Macedonia – for I will be going through Macedonia –

I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?

And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test!

For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

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

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.

I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!

I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,

I am appealing to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become during my imprisonment, that is, Onesimus,

“As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”

Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

Therefore we ought to support such people, so that we become coworkers in cooperation with the truth.