having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have me in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,

that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,

so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;

and that the most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God fearlessly.

These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the glad tidings;

for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death.

and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in faith;

that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus through me by my presence again with you.

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings,

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to God the Father's glory.

So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall soon come;

since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.

because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith,

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

So that, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now however at length ye have revived your thinking of me, though surely ye did also think of me, but lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.

And know also ye, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out of Macedonia, no assembly communicated anything to me in the way of giving and receiving save ye alone;

Not that I seek gift, but I seek fruit abounding to your account.