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

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ;

Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

And many of the brethren in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

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

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

That your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.

Only let your manner of life be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth;

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

I sent him therefore the more speedily, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to the righteousness which is by the law, blameless.

Yes doubtless, and I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them to be dung, that I may win Christ,

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

If by any means I may attain to the resurrection of the dead.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I pursue, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye are otherwise minded, God will reveal even this to you.

Nevertheless, to what we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them who walk so as ye have us for an example.

Who will change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.

I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace will be with you.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, with that to be content.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

But my God will supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Now to God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.