because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now,

Now I want you to know, brothers, that {my circumstances} have happened instead for the progress of the gospel,

for I know that this will turn out to me for deliverance through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death.

But if [it is] to live in the flesh, this [is] fruitful work for me, and which I will prefer [I do] not know.

And because I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,

having the same struggle which you saw in me and now hear about in me.

so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [those] in heaven and of [those] on earth and of [those] under the earth,

Therefore my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be encouraged [when I] know {your circumstances}.

For I have no one like-minded who [will] sincerely be concerned about {your circumstances}.

But you know his proven character, that like a child with a father he served with me for the gospel.

so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

For many live, of whom I spoke about to you many times, but now speak about even weeping, [as] the enemies of the cross of Christ,

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last {you have renewed your concern for me}, for whom also you were thinking, but you had no opportunity [to express it].

I know [how] both {to make do with little} and I know [how] {to have an abundance}. In everything and in all [things] I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both {to have an abundance} and to go without.

Now you also know, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone,

Now to our God and Father [be] the glory {forever and ever}. Amen.