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 ;