21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if to live in the flesh, --`if' this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.
23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:
24 Yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;
26 That your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;
28 And in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;
29 Because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:
30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.