God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give the brothers peace and love, with faith.

God's blessing be with all who have an unfailing love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the devoted adherents of Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the superintendents and assistants;

God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

For I am certain that he who has begun the good work in you will finish it for the Day of Jesus Christ.

For God is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself.

so that you may have a sense of what is vital, and may be men of transparent character and blameless life, in preparation for the Day of Christ,

with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

Thus it is generally known throughout the Imperial Guard and elsewhere that it is for the sake of Christ that I am in prison,

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching the Christ from jealousy and partisanship, but there are others who are doing it out of good-will.

But the others are preaching the Christ not sincerely but for their own ends, imagining that they are making my imprisonment harder to bear.

But what difference does it make? All that matters is that, in one way or another, from false motives or honest ones, Christ is being made known; I am glad of that. Yes, and I expect to be glad,

for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, all this will turn out for my highest welfare,

for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.

For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better.

I am undecided between the two, for I long to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

For you have been granted the privilege not only of trusting in Christ but of suffering for him.

So by whatever appeal there is in our relation to Christ, by whatever incentive there is in love, by whatever participation there is in the Spirit, whatever affection and sympathy,

Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

and everyone should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, and thus glorify God the Father.

offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.

For they are all looking out for their own interests, not for those of Jesus Christ.

We are the true circumcision, who worship God by his Spirit, priding ourselves only on Christ Jesus, and not relying on physical advantages,

But for the sake of Christ I have come to count my former gains as loss.

Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ

and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ??he uprightness that comes from God through faith.

Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ.

I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

For there are many who live, as I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, like enemies of the cross of Christ.

But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then, through your union with Christ Jesus, the peace of God, so far above any human thought, will guard your minds and thoughts.

My God will gloriously supply all your needs with his wealth, through your union with Christ Jesus.

The blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Timothy,

We never pray for you without thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

for what we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have for all God's people,

and really came to know it, in the form in which Epaphras, my dear fellow-slave, taught it to you. He is my faithful representative as a servant of Christ,

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is.

that your hearts may be cheered. I want you to be united by love, and to have all the benefit of assured knowledge in coming to know Christ??3 that divine mystery in which all treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found.

For though I am absent from you in person I am with you in spirit, and I am glad to observe your harmony and the solidity of your faith in Christ.

So just as you once accepted the Christ, Jesus, as your Lord, you must live in vital union with him.

Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,

Yes, you who were dead through your misdeeds and physically uncircumcised, God raised to life with Christ. He forgave us all our misdeeds,

That was all only the shadow of something that was to follow; the reality is found in Christ.

If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like

If, then, you have been raised to life with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are where Christ is, above, seated at God's right hand.

For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our true life, shall make his appearance, then you also will appear glorified with him.

Here, what matters is not "Greek" and "Jew," the circumcised and the uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeborn, but Christ is everything and in us all.

Let the ruling principle in your hearts be Christ's peace, for in becoming members of one body you have been called under its sway. And you must be thankful.

Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.

for you know that it is from him that you are to receive that inheritance which is to be your reward. Think of Christ as the master you are working for.

Pray for me too, that God may give me an opening for the message, and let me tell the secret of Christ on account of which I am kept in prison

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Thessalonian church in union with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; God bless you and give you peace.

for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We never sought praise from men, either from you or anyone else, though as Christ's apostles we might have stood on our dignity.

For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you in your turn had to bear the same ill-treatment from your neighbors as they did from the Jews,

and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith

For the Lord himself, at the summons, when the archangel calls and God's trumpet sounds, will come down from heaven, and first those who died in union with Christ will rise;

For God has not destined us for his wrath, but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Thank God whatever happens. For this is what God through Christ Jesus wants you to do.

May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

The blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Thessalonian church in union with God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;

God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in him, by the blessing of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, brothers, and our assembling to meet him, we beg you

and called you to it through our preaching of the good news, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and kindly given us unfailing encouragement and a well-founded hope,

May the Lord guide your hearts into a sense of God's love and into a steadfastness like Christ's.

We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.

Now with the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such people to keep quiet and do their work and earn their own living.

The blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by order of God our Savior and of Jesus Christ our hope,

to Timothy, my true child in faith; God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord bless you and be merciful to you, and give you peace.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me the strength for it, for thinking me trustworthy and putting me into his service,

and the blessing of our Lord has been given me in the greatest abundance, together with faith and love that union with Christ Jesus brings.

It is a trustworthy saying, entitled to the fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of them,

but God had mercy on me in order that in my case as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display his perfect patience, as an example to those who would later believe in him and find eternal life.

For there is but one God, and one intermediary between God and men??he man Christ Jesus,

For those who do good service as assistants gain a good standing for themselves and great confidence in their faith in Christ Jesus.

If you point this out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, living on the principles of the faith and the excellent teaching you have had.

Do not put young women on the list of widows, for when their youthful vigor comes between them and Christ, they want to marry,

I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to observe these rules without any discrimination, and to be perfectly impartial.

Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching

Before God who maintains all life, and before Christ Jesus who in testifying before Pontius Pilate made his great profession, I charge you

to keep his command stainless and irreproachable until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus in fulfilment of the promise of that life which is found in union with Christ Jesus,

to my dear child Timothy; God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord bless you and be merciful to you and give you peace.

He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

which has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has taken away the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the good news,

As your example in wholesome instruction, keep before you what you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.

So you, my son, must find strength in the blessing that comes through Christ Jesus.

Share my hardships like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Remember Jesus Christ as risen from the dead, and descended from David, as I preach the good news,

For that reason I am ready to submit to anything for the sake of those whom God has chosen, so that they too may gain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.