For I am confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

And this is my prayer, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ;

Now I want you to know, brethren, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,

so that my imprisonment for Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,

and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have been encouraged to speak the word of God without fear.

The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel;

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,

for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,

as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be ashamed in anything, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better;

Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

so that your proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

in no way frightened by your opponents. This is a sign of destruction to them, but of salvation for you and that too, from God.

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news of you.

But you know that he has proved his worth, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.

and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.

for he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was ill.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may have less anxiety.

More than that, I count everything to be loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christthe righteousness that comes from God and is by faith,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death;

in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Let those of us who are mature have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you.

who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you had no opportunity.

Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

You yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the first preaching of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;

Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.