always in every prayer of mine making my request for you all with joy

for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because you have me in your heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers of my grace.

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

But these others preach in love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.

For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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

For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

But to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.

And having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of faith,

so that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,

but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

For I have no one who is like-minded, who will naturally care for your state.

For all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ.

For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had been sick.

For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

because for the work of Christ he was near death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is indeed not grievous to me, but for you it is safe.

For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;

But whatever things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern.

(For many are walking, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ;

For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we are looking for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Therefore, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand fast in this way in the Lord, beloved ones.

Not that I speak according to need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my necessity.