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

for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day till now:

These do it from love, because they know that I am set for the defense of the gospel;

those preach Christ from a contentious disposition, not sincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

If, therefore, there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort arising from love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies,

who, being in the form of God, did not think it an act of robbery to be equal with God;

but he divested himself by taking the form of a servant, and being made in the likeness of men:

if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church contributed to me so that I kept an account of giving and receiving, but you only.

But I have all, and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your gifts, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

Now to God, even our Father, be glory from age to age. Amen.