Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ,

and many of the brothers having been made confident by my bonds in the Lord have more abundant courage to speak the word without fear.

according to my expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

But I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ; for this is far better;

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my coming again to you.

Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

terrified in nothing by the adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God;

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God;

that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth,

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs.

Him therefore I hope to send to you as soon as I know how it will be with me;

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him again you may rejoice and I be less sorrowful.

as to zeal persecuting the church, as to righteousness by the law being blameless.

But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ

and be found in him, not having my righteousness by the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by the faith,

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

Let us, as many as are perfect therefore, be of this mind; and if any one thinks at all otherwise, God shall also reveal this to you;

Be followers of me, brothers, and observe those who walk so as you have us for an example.

who will change our humble body, and make it like his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to subject all things to himself.

Let your gentleness be known to all men; the Lord is near.

Be anxious for nothing, but with all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

and what you learned and received and heard and knew in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.

I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to abound; in every thing and in all conditions I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer want.

To our God and Father be the glory forever and ever; amen.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.