For God is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself.

Never for a moment falter before your opponents, for your fearlessness will be a sure sign for them of their coming destruction, but to you it will be an omen, from God himself, of your deliverance.

Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.

To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.

More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

for there is no one that is so dear to me as he, and no one will more sincerely interest himself in your concerns.

Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.

But you know what Timothy has proved himself to be, and how, like a child working for his father, he worked hard with me in spreading the Good News.

who will change the fashion of the body of our abasement into the likeness of his glorious body by the energy with which he is able even to subject all things to himself.