Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.
so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;
But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;
Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, not of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;
yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus: