being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ,

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

that you may distinguish between things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ,

But I desire that you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel;

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places.

But these others preach in love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.

For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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

And having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of faith,

so that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

then fulfill my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind.

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones under the earth;

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

so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,

holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.

But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

But I trust in the Lord that I myself shall also come shortly.

For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had been sick.

Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.

But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself.

I beg Euodia and Syntyche that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again. Although you indeed did think, but you lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak according to need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.

Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as regards giving and receiving, except you alone.

I do not say this because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.