being confident of this, that He who hath begun a good work in you will continue to perfect it till the day of Jesus Christ.

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

that ye may try things that differ, that ye may be sincere and without offence until the day of Christ;

But I would have you know, my brethren, that the things, which have befallen me, have proved rather to the advancement of the gospel:

so that my bonds are manifest in all the palace, and all other places, to be for the sake of Christ;

the others out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

for I know that this shall turn to my safety through your prayer, and the aid of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be put to shame in nothing; but that with all freedom of speech, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

so that I know not what to chuse;

And as I am confident of this, I know that I shall abide and shall continue with you all, for your improvement and the joy of your faith:

that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may abound through me, by my coming to you again.

Only behave worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of you, that ye stand firm in one Spirit, striving together as with one soul for the saith of the gospel;

and being in the human state, He humbled himself, and was obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.

that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of celestial beings, as well as 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.

for it is God that worketh in you both to will, and to work, out of his own good-pleasure.

that ye may be blameless and inoffensive, the children of God without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, by knowing the state of your affairs.

But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel.

But I trust in the Lord, that I shall soon come myself too.

for he much longed after you all, and was greatly concerned because ye had heard that he was sick.

For indeed he was sick and nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

I have sent him therefore the more desirously, that when ye see him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.

because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, so that he might fill up what was wanting in your kind offices towards me.

Beware of those that are like dogs, beware of evil doers, beware of the concision.

Yea doubtless and I count all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and I account them but dung, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him,

not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is by the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him,

not that I have yet won the prize, or am already perfect: but I press forward to acquire that perfection, for which also I have been apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, be imitators of me, and observe those that walk as ye have us for an example.

(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: whose end is destruction,

that it may be made like his glorious body, according to the energy of his ability to subdue all things to Himself.

I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that your care for me has now flourished again; for whom ye were indeed careful before, but ye wanted opportunity.

Not that I speak on account of want; for I have learnt in whatever circumstances I am, to be contented.

And ye Philippians know, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I was departing from Macedonia, no church communicated to me on the score of giving and receiving, but you only.

Not that I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren that are with me salute you: