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

always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy,

just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, [since] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me.

For God [is] my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,

Now I want you to know, brothers, that {my circumstances} have happened instead for the progress of the gospel,

so that my imprisonment in Christ has become known in the whole praetorium and to all the rest,

and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, dare [even] more to speak the word without fear.

The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction in my imprisonment.

for I know that this will turn out to me for deliverance through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death.

For to me to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain.

But if [it is] to live in the flesh, this [is] fruitful work for me, and which I will prefer [I do] not know.

so that [what] you can be proud of may increase in Christ Jesus because of me through my return again to you.

having the same struggle which you saw in me and now hear about in me.

complete my joy, so that {you are in agreement}, having the same love, united in spirit, {having one purpose}.

Therefore my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

in order that you may become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as stars in the world,

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

And [in] the same [way] also you rejoice and rejoice with me.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be encouraged [when I] know {your circumstances}.

But you know his proven character, that like a child with a father he served with me for the gospel.

Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see {my circumstances}.

But I considered [it] necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, but your messenger and servant of my need,

For indeed he was sick, coming near to death, but God had mercy on him and not [on] him only, but also [on] me, so that I would not have grief upon grief.

Therefore I am sending him with special urgency, in order that [when] you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that {he might make up for your inability to serve me}.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same [things] to you [is] not troublesome to me, but [is] a safeguard for you.

But whatever [things] were gain to me, these [things] I have considered loss because of Christ.

{More than that}, even consider all [things] to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all [things], and consider [them] dung, in order that I may gain Christ

and may be found in him, not having my righteousness [which is] from the law, but [which is] through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith,

so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.

Become fellow imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who walk in this way, just as you have us [as] an example.

So then, my beloved and greatly desired brothers, my joy and crown, thus stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.

Yes, I ask also you, true yokefellow, help them, who struggled along with me in the gospel with both Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names [are] in the book of life.

And [the things] which you have learned and received and heard about and seen in me, practice these [things], and the God of peace will be with you.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last {you have renewed your concern for me}, for whom also you were thinking, but you had no opportunity [to express it].

I am able [to do] all [things] by the one who strengthens me.

Nevertheless you have done well by sharing with me in my affliction.

Now you also know, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone,

because even in Thessalonica {on more than one occasion} you sent for my need.

And my God will fulfill your every need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me greet you.