God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

I never think of you without thanking my God,

over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.

For I am certain that he who has begun the good work in you will finish it for the Day of Jesus Christ.

And I have a right to feel in this way about you all, because both when I am in prison and when I am defending and vindicating our right to preach the good news, I have you in my heart as all sharing that privilege with me.

For God is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself.

with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

Now I want to assure you, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in furthering the preaching of the good news.

and so most of the Christian brothers have been exceedingly encouraged by my example to declare God's message without any fear of the consequences.

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching the Christ from jealousy and partisanship, but there are others who are doing it out of good-will.

These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

Never for a moment falter before your opponents, for your fearlessness will be a sure sign for them of their coming destruction, but to you it will be an omen, from God himself, of your deliverance.

Though he possessed the nature of God, he did not grasp at equality with God,

That is why God has so greatly exalted him, and given him the name above all others,

and everyone should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, and thus glorify God the Father.

For it is God who in his good will is at work in your hearts, inspiring your will and your action.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation as you offer your faith in a service of sacrifice to God, I am glad to have it so, and I congratulate you upon it,

But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another.

We are the true circumcision, who worship God by his Spirit, priding ourselves only on Christ Jesus, and not relying on physical advantages,

and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ??he uprightness that comes from God through faith.

I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

Let as many of us therefore as are mature have this attitude. If you have any different attitude, God will make this clear to you.

They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.

And I beg you, my true comrade, help them, for they toiled at my side in spreading the good news, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.

Then, through your union with Christ Jesus, the peace of God, so far above any human thought, will guard your minds and thoughts.

Do the things that you learned, received, and heard from me, and that you saw me do. Then God who gives peace will be with you.

And you at Philippi know as well as I do, that in the early days of the good news, after I left Macedonia, no church but yours went into partnership and opened an account with me.

You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.

My God will gloriously supply all your needs with his wealth, through your union with Christ Jesus.

Glory to our God and Father forever and ever. Amen.

All God's people wish to be remembered to you, especially those who belong to the emperor's household.