Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

So I am specially eager to send him, that you may be glad when you see him again, and thus my own anxiety may be lightened.

You Philippians are well aware that in the early days of the gospel, when I had left Macedonia, no church but yourselves had any financial dealings with me;

even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent money more than once for my needs.