Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Christ Jesus: To all God's people in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the ministers of the Church and their assistants.

May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,

being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ-- to the glory and praise of God.

And thus it has become notorious among all the Imperial Guards, and everywhere, that it is for the sake of Christ that I am a prisoner;

Some indeed actually preach Christ out of envy and contentiousness but there are also others who do it from good will.

What does it matter, however? In any case Christ is preached--either perversely or in honest truth; and in that I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

For I know that it will result in my salvation through your prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death.

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

I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better.

Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News.

For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ--not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf;

If then I can appeal to you as the followers of Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love and any common sharing of the Spirit, or if you have any tender-heartedness and compassion, make my joy complete by being of one mind,

Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.

and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.

because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me.

For we are the true circumcision--we who render to God a spiritual worship and make our boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in outward ceremonies:

Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss.

Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,

not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ--the righteousness which comes from God through faith.

I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection, and to share in His sufferings and die even as He died;

I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ.

We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

I entreat Euodia, and I entreat Syntyche, to be of one mind, as sisters in Christ.

And then the peace of God, which transcends all our powers of thought, will be a garrison to guard your hearts and minds in union with Christ Jesus.

But my God--so great is His wealth of glory in Christ Jesus--will fully supply every need of yours.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.