Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

It is but just that I should be thus mindful of you all, because I have you in my heart, and because in these fetters of mine and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all my fellow partners in the privilege.

And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

for testing things that differ, so that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has turned out rather to help than to the hindrance of the gospel.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

These latter out of their love, because they know that I am set here for the defense of the gospel;

What of it? In any case, whether in pretence or in honest truth, Christ is still preached, and in that I am rejoicing, yes, and will rejoice.

For I know that these things will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and a rich supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

but for your sakes it is more necessary that I should still live on in the body.

And because I am convinced of this, I know that I shall live, and go on working side by side with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

so that you may find me fresh cause of exultation in Christ Jesus, because of my presence among you once more.

Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

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

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

that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you.

but I trust in the Lord that I also shall come shortly.

And indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less.

for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.

In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ,

and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.

I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,

But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Moreover, I greatly rejoiced in the Lord that now once more your care for me blossomed afresh; though indeed you did take thought in this matter, but you lacked the opportunity of expression.

Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

And you very well know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I had left Macedonia, no church but yourselves had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving.

It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account.