being confident of this very thing, that he who hath wrought in you the good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

who being in the form of God counted it no usurpation to claim equality with God:

For it is God who worketh effectually in you both to will and to perform of his good pleasure.

that ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, inoffensive, in the midst of an untoward and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world;

For I have no one like minded with him, who will genuinely care for your affairs.

But I have thought it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-labourer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and the minister who supplied my want.

For we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the transcendently excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as offals of ordure, that I may gain Christ,

Be ye imitators, brethren, of me, and eye attentively those who walk so as ye have us for an example.

For many walk, whom I have often mentioned to you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

who shall transform our body of humiliation, that it may be conformed to his body of glory, according to the effectual working of him who is able to subdue even all things to himself.

And I beseech thee also, my genuine associate, assist those women who laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

I am enabled for all things by Christ who strengtheneth me.

All the saints salute you, specially those who are of Caesar's household.