because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually caused the gospel to advance.

The latter are motivated by love, because they know that I have been appointed to defend the gospel.

I know that this will result in my deliverance through your prayers and the help that comes from the Spirit of Jesus the Messiah.

I rejoice because I eagerly expect and hope that I will have nothing to be ashamed of, because through my boldness the Messiah will be exalted through me, now as always, whether I live or die.

Now if I continue living, fruitful labor is the result, so I do not know which I would prefer.

Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will continue to live and be with all of you, so you will mature in the faith and know joy in it.

You have the same struggle that you saw in me and now hear that I am still having.

Now lifted up by God to heaven, a name above all others given, this matchless name possessing.

And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I can be encouraged when I learn of your condition.

But you know his proven worth how like a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.

So then, my brothers, keep on rejoicing in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you; indeed, it is for your safety.

But whatever things were assets to me, these I now consider a loss for the sake of the Messiah.

I want to know the Messiah what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

For I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of the Messiah.

Now I rejoice in the Lord greatly, because once again you have shown your concern for me. Of course, you were concerned for me but you did not have an opportunity to show it.

I know how to be humble, and I know how to prosper. In each and every situation I have learned the secret of being full and of going hungry, of having too much and of having too little.

You Philippians also know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church participated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except for you.

It is not that I am looking for a gift. No, I want to see that you receive the fruit that increases to your benefit.

I have been paid in full and have more than enough. I am fully supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus what you sent a fragrant aroma, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.