as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you being all partakers of my grace.

But I wish you to know, brothers, that the things as to me have resulted in the advancement of the gospel,

and many of the brothers having been made confident by my bonds in the Lord have more abundant courage to speak the word without fear.

But if to live in the flesh [is allowed me], I have this fruit of my work, and which I shall choose I know not.

fulfil my joy, that you have the same mind, having the same love, sympathizing with each other, having one opinion.

For I have no one like minded who really will care for your interests;

For indeed he was sick nigh to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him again you may rejoice and I be less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in estimation,

although I have ground of confidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks he may trust in the flesh, I [may] more;

But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ.

But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,

but in what we have attained, in this let us walk.

Be followers of me, brothers, and observe those who walk so as you have us for an example.

I beseech Euodias and I beseech Syntyche to have the same mind in the Lord.

Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.

But I have all things and abound, I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.