filled with the fruits of righteousness, which fruits come by Jesus Christ unto the glory and laud of God.

And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,

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I know that this will result in my deliverance through your prayers and the help that comes from the Spirit of Jesus the Messiah.

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

If, then, any encouragement comes through union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any communion with the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

Instead He emptied Himself
by assuming the form of a slave,
taking on the likeness of men.
And when He had come as a man
in His external form,

but I trust in the Lord that I also shall come shortly.

However, I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, [who has been] my brother and companion and fellow soldier, who was also sent as your messenger to take care of my needs.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

But for the sake of Christ I have come to count my former gains as loss.

and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.

Yes, I long to come to know Him; that is, the power of His resurrection and so to share with Him his sufferings as to be continuously transformed by His death,

Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,

Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

Nevertheless in that whereunto we are come, let us proceed by one rule, that we may be of one accord.

For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.