And I am justified in having this confidence about you all, because, both during my imprisonment and when I stand up in defence of the Good News or to confirm its truth, I have you in my heart, sharers as you all are in the same grace as myself.

so that, as Christians, you may have additional reason for glorying about me as the result of my being with you again.

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.

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

Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.

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;