I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,

constantly in my every supplication, making the supplication for you all with joy,

as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have me in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,

that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;

and that the most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God fearlessly.

but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.

for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death.

For for me to live is Christ, and to die gain;

but if to live in flesh is my lot, this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.

that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus through me by my presence again with you.

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.

fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

In like manner do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord: to write the same things to you, to me is not irksome, and for you safe.

Though I have my trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, I rather:

but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.

But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith,

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

Be imitators all together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

So that, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

What ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now however at length ye have revived your thinking of me, though surely ye did also think of me, but lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.

But ye have done well in taking part in my affliction.

And know also ye, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out of Macedonia, no assembly communicated anything to me in the way of giving and receiving save ye alone;

for also in Thessalonica once and even twice ye sent to me for my need.

But my God shall abundantly supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me salute you.