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

on account of your fellowship in the cause of the gospel from the first day until now;

Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will.

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

If then there is any exhortation in Christ, if any encouragement from love, if any partaking of the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith;

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

And ye yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in an account of giving and receiving, but ye only;

But I have all, and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus what was sent from you, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.