For to you it has been granted for the sake of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake,

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news of you.

and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.

But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need;

Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Let those of us who are mature have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you.

But our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Yes, and I ask you also, true yoke-fellow, to help these women who have struggled at my side in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

I know how to be in need, and I also know how to have plenty; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and want.

You yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the first preaching of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;