Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

for your participation in the good-news from the first day until now.

Some indeed proclaim the Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to bring affliction to my bonds.

But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good-news.

Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o

And not being frightened in anything by those who oppose, which is indeed a sign of destruction to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.

But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men.

And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross.

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith--the righteousness from God based on faith--

For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which also we await a Savior, Lord Jesus Christ,

who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself.

So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in Lord this way beloved.

And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good-news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only,

But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.