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

I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

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

for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, and odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now unto our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.