I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

always in every prayer of mine making my request for you all with joy

even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because you have me in your heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers of my grace.

For God is my witness how greatly 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 full knowledge and in all perception;

that you may distinguish between things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ,

But I desire that you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel;

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places.

And most of the brothers in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the Word without fear.

Those, indeed, preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds.

For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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

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

But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet I do not know what I shall choose.

so that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

then fulfill my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling.

so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,

holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

And you also rejoice in the same, and rejoice with me.

But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.

But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

Therefore I hope to send him presently, as soon as I shall see the things about me.

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and he who ministered to my wants.

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

Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

because for the work of Christ he was near death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is indeed not grievous to me, but for you it is safe.

But whatever things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ

and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before,

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern.

who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself.

Therefore, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand fast in this way in the Lord, beloved ones.

And I also beg you, true yoke-fellow, help those women who labored in the gospel with me and with Clement, and others of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things.

Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again. Although you indeed did think, but you lacked opportunity.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Yet you did well in sharing my troubles.

Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as regards giving and receiving, except you alone.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my necessity.

I do not say this because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

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

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

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.