I give thanks to my God on every remembrance of you,

as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I bear you on my heart, both in my bonds and in my defence and the confirmation of the gospel, as being all of you sharers in my grace.

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

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

that ye may prove the things that are excellent, in order that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ;

Now I wish you, brethren, to know, that the things which have befallen me have rather conduced to the progress of the gospel;

so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;

and very many of our brethren in the Lord, assuming confidence from my chains, are more abundantly bold, fearlessly to preach the word.

the one indeed preach Christ out of contention, not with purity of intention, thinking to add affliction to my bonds:

For I know that this shall issue in my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But if it be his will, that I should live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my travail: and what to chuse I know not.

but to abide in the flesh may be more necessary for you.

that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus for me by my coming again unto you.

Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

experiencing the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear to be in me.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may be united in sentiment, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind.

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always been obedient, not only during my presence with you, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling work out your own salvation.

that ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, inoffensive, in the midst of an untoward and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world;

holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

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

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be refreshed in spirit, when I know your affairs.

But ye have known the trial of him, that, as a son with a father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send immediately as soon as I see clearly what will become of me.

But I have thought it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-labourer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and the minister who supplied my want.

For sick indeed he was, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

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

for in the work of Christ he was nigh unto death indifferent about life, that he might afford me that service which it was not in your power to render me.

MOREOVER, brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but is safe for you.

Though I too might have confidence in the flesh; if any other man thinks that he may have confidence in the flesh, I may claim more:

But what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the transcendently excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as offals of ordure, that I may gain Christ,

that I may know him, and the virtue of his resurrection, and communion with his sufferings, being conformed to his death;

if haply I may attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

Not that I have already attained, or am now perfect: but I pursue, that I may overtake that for which also by his apprehension of me I am destined by Christ Jesus.

Be ye imitators, brethren, of me, and eye attentively those who walk so as ye have us for an example.

who shall transform our body of humiliation, that it may be conformed to his body of glory, according to the effectual working of him who is able to subdue even all things to himself.

WHEREFORE, my brethren, beloved, and very dear to me, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, O beloved.

And I beseech thee also, my genuine associate, assist those women who laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Whatsoever things also ye have learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these practise, and the God of peace shall be with you.

Now I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that now once more your thoughtful attention about me hath again sprung up, to which also your mind had been disposed, but ye had not found the opportunity.

Not that I mention this with a view to my indigence: for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am, to be content.

I am enabled for all things by Christ who strengtheneth me.

Nevertheless ye have done nobly in your communications to me during my affliction.

But know also, Philippians, that at my first preaching the gospel, when I went from Macedonia, no church communicated to me in the way of giving and receiving but ye alone.

For in Thessalonica also ye sent me once, yea twice, a supply for my want.

But my God will fully supply all your want, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Jesus.

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