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Euen as it is meete for mee to thinke this of you all, because I haue you in my heart, in as much as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the Gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

1611 marginal noteOr, you haue me in your heart.

1611 marginal noteOr, partakers with me of grace.

That ye may approue things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere, and without offence till the day of Christ.

1611 marginal noteOr, trie.

1611 marginal noteOr, differ.

But I would yee should vnderstand brethren, that the things which happened vnto mee, haue fallen out rather vnto the furtherance of the Gospel.

Onely let your conuersation bee as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may heare of your affaires, that yee stand fast in one spirit, with one minde, striuing together for the faith of the Gospel,

Hauing the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now heare to be in me.

Fulfill ye my ioy, that yee be like minded, hauing the same loue, being of one accord, of one minde.

Wherefore, my beloued, as yee haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence onely, but now much more in my absence; worke out your owne saluation with feare, and trembling.

That yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse, the sonnes of God, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and peruerse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world:

1611 marginal noteOr, syncere.

1611 marginal noteOr, shine ye

For the same cause also doe ye ioy, and reioyce with me.

But ye know the proofe of him, That as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me, in the Gospel.