– though mine too are significant. ¹  If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, ²  I have more:

I feel torn between the two, ¹  because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

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 ¹  – a righteousness from God that is in fact ²  based on Christ’s ³  faithfulness. ⁴