⁴⁶ Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

¹⁵ `lo, I do come as a thief; happy `is' he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --

³⁴ `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

³⁷ `Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;

⁴³ Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

²¹ for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain.

²² And if to live in the flesh `is' to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

²³ for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

⁶ for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived;

⁷ the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

¹³ and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding `you',

¹⁴ having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,

¹⁵ and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.

¹⁹ I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last `are' more than the first.