“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ,”

“Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,”

“Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss,” &c.,

IV. “That I may win Christ,”

“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,”

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death,”

“If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead,”

“Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus,”

“Not as though I had already attained,” &c.,

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth toward those things which are before, I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ,”

“I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ,”

“Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so, as ye have us for an example,”

“For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,”

“Whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things,”

“For our conversation is in heaven,”

“From whence also we look for our Saviour and Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ,”

“Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself,”

“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain,”

“To die is gain,”

I. “So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all the persecutions and tribulations which ye endure,”

“Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer,”

“Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you that are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,”

“Seeing it is a righteous thing with God,” &c.,

“When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,”

“In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,”

“Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power,”

“When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day,”

“When he shall come to be glorified,” &c.,

“Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power,”

“Wherefore also we pray always,” &c.,

“Wherefore also we pray always,” &c.,

“Wherefore also we pray always,” &c.,

“That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ,”

“That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,” &c.,

“That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,” &c.,

“I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake,”

“I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one,”

“I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that was from the beginning,”

“I write unto you, fathers,” &c.,

“I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one,” &c.,

“I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father,” &c.,

“Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not,”

“Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is,”

“But we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is,”

“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure,”

“And every man that hath this hope in him,” &c.,

“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin is a transgression of the law,”

“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law,”