convinced of this same [thing], that the one who began a good work in you will finish [it] until the day of Christ Jesus,

For God [is] my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,

Now I want you to know, brothers, that {my circumstances} have happened instead for the progress of the gospel,

so that my imprisonment in Christ has become known in the whole praetorium and to all the rest,

The latter [do so] from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.

{What is the result?} Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But also I will rejoice,

for I know that this will turn out to me for deliverance through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death.

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

so that [what] you can be proud of may increase in Christ Jesus because of me through my return again to you.

Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear {your circumstances}, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

complete my joy, so that {you are in agreement}, having the same love, united in spirit, {having one purpose}.

he humbled himself [by] becoming obedient to the point of death, that is, death on a cross.

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

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

in order that you may become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as stars in the world,

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be encouraged [when I] know {your circumstances}.

But you know his proven character, that like a child with a father he served with me for the gospel.

And I am convinced in the Lord that I myself will arrive shortly also.

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

For indeed he was sick, coming near to death, but God had mercy on him and not [on] him only, but also [on] me, so that I would not have grief upon grief.

Therefore I am sending him with special urgency, in order that [when] you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that {he might make up for your inability to serve me}.

{More than that}, even consider all [things] to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all [things], and consider [them] dung, in order that I may gain Christ

so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.

who will transform our humble body [to be] conformed to his glorious body, in accordance with the power that enables him even to subject all [things] to himself.

And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last {you have renewed your concern for me}, for whom also you were thinking, but you had no opportunity [to express it].

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

Now you also know, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone,

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