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

for your contribution to the good news from the first day till now,

and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

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

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;

and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God: