I can do anything through Him who gives me strength.

Stop being worried about anything, but always, in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving, keep on making your wants known to God.

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.

Now, brothers, practice thinking on what is true, what is honorable, what is right, what is pure, what is lovable, what is high-toned, yes, on everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

For I am certain of this very thing, that He who began the good work in you will go on until the day of Jesus Christ to complete it.

So, my dearly loved friends, as you have always been obedient, so now with reverence and awe keep on working clear down to the finishing point of your salvation not only as though I were with you but much more because I am away;

So, if there is any appeal in our union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if we have any common share in the Spirit, if you have any tenderheartedness and sympathy,

My God will amply supply your every need, through Christ Jesus, from His riches in glory.

Though He was existing in the nature of God, He did not think His being on an equality with God a thing to be selfishly grasped,

By the help of the Lord always keep up the glad spirit; yes, I will repeat it, keep up the glad spirit.

Stop acting from motives of selfish strife or petty ambition, but in humility practice treating one another as your superiors.

But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

For to me living means Christ and dying brings gain.

Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all God's people in union with Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and assistants:

This is why God has highly exalted Him, and given Him the name that is above every other name,

Yes, I long to come to know Him; that is, the power of His resurrection and so to share with Him his sufferings as to be continuously transformed by His death,

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee;

for your cooperation in spreading the good news, from the first day you heard it until now.

It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I do not think that I have captured it yet, but here is my one aspiration, so forgetting what is behind me and reaching out for what is ahead of me,

Not that I refer to any personal want, for I have learned to be contented in whatever circumstances I am.

For God is my witness how I never stop yearning for all of you with the affection Christ Jesus inspires.

men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

Yes, indeed, I certainly do count everything as loss compared with the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have lost everything, and value it all as mere refuse, in order to gain Christ

Only you must practice living lives that are worthy of the good news, so that whether I come and see you or stay away, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, and that with one purpose you are continuing to cooperate in the fight for faith in the good news.

Every time I remember you I thank my God,

Then, through your union with Christ Jesus, the peace of God, that surpasses all human thought, will keep guard over your hearts and thoughts.

And it is my prayer that your love may overflow still more and more, directed by fuller knowledge and keener insight,

But for Christ's sake I have counted all that was gain to me as loss.

so that you may always approve the better things, and be men of transparent character and blameless life,

so that in the name of Jesus everyone should kneel, in heaven, on earth, and in the underworld,

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

but He laid it aside as He took on the nature of a slave and became like other men.

in this way it has become well known throughout the Imperial Guard and to all the rest here that I am a prisoner in the service of Christ,

by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

Because He was recognized as a man, in reality as well as in outward form, He finally humiliated Himself in obedience so as to die, even to die on a cross.

Stop looking after your own interests only but practice looking out for the interests of others too.

I was made very happy as a Christian to have your interest in my welfare revived again after so long; because you have always had the interest but not the opportunity to show it.

and that most of the Christian brothers have grown confident enough, because of my imprisonment, to dare to tell God's message without being afraid.

I am hesitating between two desires, for I long to depart and to be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

Now I want you to rest assured, brothers, that those things which have befallen me have actually resulted in the progress of the good news;

Practice doing everything without grumbling and disputing,

Follow my example, brothers, and keep your eyes on those who practice living by the pattern we have set you.

He will so change the outward appearance of our lowly bodies that they will be like His glorious body, by the exertion of the power He has to subject everything to Himself.

the latter, indeed, are doing so from love to me, for they know that I am providentially put here to defend the good news;

For it has been graciously granted to you for Christ's sake, not only to trust in Him but also to suffer for Him,

and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.

Finally, my brothers, continue to be glad that you are in union with the Lord. I am not tired of writing you the same things over and over: it means your safety.

For we are the true circumcision, who by the Spirit of God worship Him, who take pride in Christ Jesus only, and do not rely on outward privileges,

What difference then does it make? In one way or another, whether in pretense or in sincerity, Christ is being preached, and that is the thing that makes me glad; yes, more too, I will continue to be glad of it,

the former are preaching Christ from the motive of rivalry, not in sincerity, supposing that this is making it harder for me to bear my imprisonment.

in the hope of attaining, in some measure, the resurrection that lifts me out from among the dead.

so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue

Let your forbearing spirit be known to everybody. The Lord is near.

But if to keep on living here means fruit from my labor, I cannot tell which to choose.

And yet for your sakes it is very necessary for me to stay on here.

Now since I am certain of this, I know that I shall stay on and stay by you all to promote the progress of your faith

Never in the slightest degree be frightened by your opponents, for such fearlessness will be strong evidence to them of their impending destruction, but to you a sure sign, and that from God, of your salvation.

which will result in your joy; so that, through union with Christ Jesus, you may have more than sufficient ground for boasting about me, through my being with you again.

since you are having the same struggle that you once saw me have and which you hear that I am still having.

So let us all who are mature have this attitude. If you have a different attitude, God will make it clear to you.

However, we must continue to live up to that degree of success that we have already reached.

And you Philippians yourselves know that immediately after the good news was first preached to you, when I left Macedonia, no church but yours went into partnership with me to open an account of credits and debits.

But you did me a kindness to share my sorrow with me.

Glory to our God and Father forever and ever. Amen.

So I hope to send him to you just as soon as I can see how my case is going to turn out.

The spiritual blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

Even while I was at Thessalonica you sent money more than once for my needs.

Yes, even if I am pouring out my life as a libation on the sacrifice and service your faith is rendering, I am glad to do so and congratulate you upon it;

you too must do likewise, be glad of it, and congratulate me.

I have received your payment in full, and more too. I am amply supplied after getting the things you sent by Epaphroditus; they are like sweet incense, the kind of sacrifice that God accepts and approves.

But you know his tested character, how like a son in fellowship with his father he has toiled with me like a slave in preaching the good news.

It is not your gift that I want, but I do want the profits to pile up to your credit.

for he has been longing to see you and has been homesick because you have heard that he was sick.

for most people are looking out for their own interests, not for the interests of Jesus Christ.

For I have no one else with a heart like his who would take such genuine interest in you,

All God's people wish to be remembered to you, but more especially the members of the Emperor's household.

Remember me to every one of God's people in union with Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me wish to be remembered to you.

Really, I am trusting that by the help of the Lord I soon shall come myself.

For he was so sick that he was on the point of dying, but God took pity on him, and not only on him but on me too, to keep me from having one sorrow after another.

I very eagerly send him, so that when you see him you may be glad of it, and I may be less sorrowful.

So give him a hearty Christian welcome and hold in honor men like him,

So, my dearly loved brothers, whom I long to see, my joy and crown, by the help of the Lord keep on standing firm, dearly loved friends.

for I know that through your prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my spiritual welfare,

I know how to live in lowly circumstances and I know how to live in plenty. I have learned the secret, in all circumstances, of either getting a full meal or of going hungry, of living in plenty or being in want.

in accordance with my eager expectation and hope that I shall never disgrace myself, but that now as always hitherto, by my all-conquering courage, whether by living or dying, Christ will be honored in me.

though I too might rely on these. If anyone thinks that he can rely on outward privileges, far more might I do so:

Look out for those dogs, those mischief-makers, those self-mutilators!

For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you in tears, who practice living as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

And I solemnly beg you, my true comrade, keep on cooperating with those two women, because they shared with me the struggle in spreading the good news, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

fill up my cup of joy by living in harmony, by fostering the same disposition of love, your hearts beating in unison, your minds set on one purpose.

Some, indeed, are actually preaching Christ because they are moved by jealousy and partisanship, but others are doing so from the motive of good will;

I beg Euodia and I beg Syntyche to live in harmony by the help of the Lord.

and everyone should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the praise of God the Father.

I hope, with the approval of the Lord Jesus, soon to send Timothy to you, so that I too may be cheered on getting the news about you.

And I have a right to think this way about you, because I always have you in my heart, whether shut up in prison or out defending and vindicating the good news, for you are sharers with me of God's favor.

spiritual blessing and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But I think it proper now to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger to minister to my needs,

Practice the things you learned, received, and heard from me, things that you saw me do, and then the God who gives us peace will be with you.

Their doom is destruction, their stomach is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are feeding on earthly things,

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

and always do it with joy in every entreaty I make for all of you,

because he came near dying for the sake of the Lord's work and risked his life to make up for your lack of opportunity to minister to me.