who shall also confirm you unto the end, (that ye be) unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but (speak) as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.
holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.