Always, in every prayer that I offer for you all--my prayers are full of joy--

Until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the Day of Christ,

It is true that some do proclaim the Christ out of Jealousy and opposition; but there are others who proclaim him from good- will.

Under all circumstances let your lives be worthy of the Good News of the Christ: so that, whether I come and see you, or whether I hear of your affairs at a distance, I may know that you are standing firm, animated by one spirit, and joining with one heart in a common struggle for the Faith taught by the Good News,

So as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent-- 'faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation,' in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world,

They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.

For it is we who are the circumcised--we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely upon external privileges;

Only we are bound to order our lives by what we have already attained.

Brothers, unite in following my example, and fix your eyes on those who are living by the pattern which we have set you.

For there are many--of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears--who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ.

The end of such men is Ruin; for their appetites are their God, and they glory in their shame; their minds are given up to earthly things.

But the State of which we are citizens is in Heaven; and it is from Heaven that we are eagerly looking for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

So then, my dear Brothers, whom I am longing to see--you who are my joy and my crown, stand fast in union with the Lord, dear friends.

Yes, and I ask you, my true comrade, to help them, remembering that they toiled by my side in spreading the Good News; and so, too, did Clement and my other fellow-workers, whose names are 'in the Book of Life.'

And you at Philippi know, as well as I, that in the early days of the Good News--at the time when I had just left Macedonia--no Church, with the one exception of yourselves, had anything to do with me as far as giving and receiving are concerned.

My wants are fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts which you sent me--the sweet fragrance of a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Give my greeting to every one of the People of Christ Jesus. The Brothers who are with me send your their greetings.