so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ;

as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be ashamed in anything, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better;

in no way frightened by your opponents. This is a sign of destruction to them, but of salvation for you and that too, from God.

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.

who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

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

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

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

I have no one else like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

More than that, I count everything to be loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christthe righteousness that comes from God and is by faith,

who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

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.

To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.