PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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

that ye may prove the things that are excellent, in order that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ;

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

so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:

the one indeed preach Christ out of contention, not with purity of intention, thinking to add affliction to my bonds:

What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

For I know that this shall issue in my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For I am in a strait between the two, having an earnest longing to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for this is far, far better:

that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus for me by my coming again unto you.

Only conduct yourselves worthily as 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 soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

For this favour on the part of Christ is granted you, not only that ye should believe on him, but also that ye should suffer for his sake;

IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

Let the same sentiment of mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

for in the work of Christ he was nigh unto death indifferent about life, that he might afford me that service which it was not in your power to render me.

For we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

But what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the transcendently excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as offals of ordure, that I may gain Christ,

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

Not that I have already attained, or am now perfect: but I pursue, that I may overtake that for which also by his apprehension of me I am destined by Christ Jesus.

I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.

For many walk, whom I have often mentioned to you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

But our conversation is in heaven as its citizens, from whence also we are expecting the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

And the peace of God which surpasseth all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

I am enabled for all things by Christ who strengtheneth me.

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

Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren that are with me salute you.

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