Grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

from the first day to the present time. being persuaded that

those preach the gospel of Christ, not in sincerity, but from a principle of contention, with a view to inflame the persecution against me:

the others act from affection, as knowing that I suffer for having defended the gospel.

without being under any the least apprehension from your adversaries: this will be to them a sign of their ruin, and to you of salvation, by the divine appointment.

by assuming the form of a servant: being made in the likeness of men,

and be his true disciple, not professing that justification, which is derived from the law, but that which is from the gospel,

I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

but we are the denisons of heaven, from whence we expect the saviour Jesus Christ our Lord.

it is he, that will change our vile body into a like form with his glorious body, by displaying that power which is able to subdue all things unto himself.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, my joy and my crown, whom I long to see, continue firm in your christian profession, my beloved.

and you yourselves know, O Philippians, that when I first preach'd the gospel, at my departure from Macedonia, I receiv'd no manner of assistance from any other church but yours;