It is right for me to feel this way about you, because [you have me in your heart as] I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the good news [regarding salvation], all of you share in [His matchless] grace with me.

As a result, it has become clear to the whole imperial guard and to everyone else that I am in prison for preaching about the Messiah.

So, what [should I think about the situation]? Just this: I am happy and will continue to be happy that, in every way, Christ is being preached, [regardless of] whether it is in pretense or with sincerity.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

which will result in your joy; so that, through union with Christ Jesus, you may have more than sufficient ground for boasting about me, through my being with you again.

Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o

having the same struggle that you saw I had and now hear that I have.

Is there anything to be encouraged about by being in [fellowship with] Christ? Is there any comfort from His love? Is there any sharing with the Holy Spirit? [Have you received] any affection and compassion [from Christ]?

Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.

You should think about things the way Christ Jesus did.

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

as you hold out [i.e., offer to people] the message of [never ending] life. Then I will have something to boast about on the day of Christ's [return, See 1:6], that I had not run the race for nothing nor had worked for nothing.

But I hope in Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be cheerful when I know the things about you.

For I have no man like-minded who will genuinely care for the things about you.

Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.

But you people know about his proven reliability, how he served with me in advancing [the work of] the Gospel just like a son working with his father.

So I hope to send him as soon as I know more about my situation,

Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.

for in the work of Christ he was nigh unto death indifferent about life, that he might afford me that service which it was not in your power to render me.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write to you again about this is no trouble for me and is a protection for you.

Brothers, I consider that I, myself, have not yet taken hold [of Christ's ultimate purpose for me]. But there is one thing that I am doing; I am forgetting about my past [See verses 5-7], and reaching forward to what lies ahead.

Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

Be ye my imitators, brethren, and mark those thus walking about as you have us an example.

for there are many that wander about, of whom I have frequently told you, and now repeat it with tears, that they are enemies to the cross of Christ:

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

And [the things] which you have learned and received and heard about and seen in me, practice these [things], and the God of peace will be with you.

But I rejoiced in Lord greatly that now at last ye have revived thinking about me, in which also ye were thinking, but ye lacked opportunity.

But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.

And you men and women of Philippi also know that at the first preaching of the Good News, when I had left Macedonia, no other Church except yourselves held communication with me about giving and receiving;