Through prayer to God I have obtained the privilege of seeing your most worthy faces,'* even as I earnestly begged might be granted me ; for as a prisoner in Christ Jesus I hope to salute you, if indeed it be the will [of God] that I be thought worthy of attaining unto the end. For the beginning has been well ordered, if I may obtain grace to cling to ^ my lot without hindrance unto the end. For I am afraid of your love,7 lest it should do me an injury. For it is easy for you to accomplish what you please ;