001:020 in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death. 001:021 For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 001:022 But since to live means a longer stay on earth, that implies more labour for me--and not unsuccessful labour; and which I am to choose I cannot tell. 001:023 I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better. 001:024 But for your sakes it is more important that I should still remain in the body. 001:025 I am convinced of this, and I know that I shall remain, and shall go on working side by side with you all, to promote your progress and joy in the faith; 001:026 so that, as Christians, you may have additional reason for glorying about me as the result of my being with you again. 001:027 Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News. 001:028 Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to them a sure token of impending destruction, but to you it will be a sure token of your salvation-- a token coming from God. 001:029 For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ-- not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf; 001:030 maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in. 002:001 If then I can appeal to you as the followers of Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love and any common sharing of the Spirit, or if you have any tender-heartedness and compassion, make my joy complete by being of one mind, 002:002 united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object. 002:003 Do nothing in a spirit of factiousness or of vainglory, but, with true humility, let every one regard the rest as being of more account than himself; 002:004 each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also. 002:005 Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus. 002:006 Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped. 002:007 Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men. 002:008 And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.