I thank my God for every mention of you,

always in all my prayer with joy making supplication,

as it is righteous for me to think in behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, that you are all my fellow-partakers of the grace.

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

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

in order that you may distinguish those things which differ; that you may be pure and without offence in the day of Christ;

But I wish you, brethren, to know that the affairs appertaining to me have turned out rather unto the promotion of the gospel.

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the pretorian army, and to all the rest;

and many of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are bold to speak the word of God more fluently without fear.

the former from self-seeking are proclaiming Christ insincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

For I know that this will turn out to me unto 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 with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

For Christ is my life, and death is my gain.

But if to live in the flesh, this shall be to me the fruit of the work, indeed I know not what I shall ask.

in order that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may abound in me through my coming again unto you.

having the same conflict as you saw in me, and now hearing me.

fill my joy, that you may think the same thing, having the same divine love, being like-minded, thinking this one thing;

So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.

but you also rejoice in this same thing, and rejoice along with me.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus, speedily to send unto you Timothy, in order that I may also be delighted, having learned the things concerning you.

But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.

Indeed then I hope to send him, so soon as I may learn the things concerning myself:

But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, and apostle and the minister of my necessity;

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

Therefore I the more diligently, in order that, seeing him, you may rejoice again, and I may not be without sorrow.

because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me.

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

Those things which were gained to me, these I counted loss for the sake of Christ.

Yes truly, I even counted all things loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I suffer the loss of all things, and I consider them but excrements, that I may gain Christ,

and may be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ, the righteousness of God through faith:

if perchance I may attain unto the resurrection which is out from the dead.

Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus.

Be ye my imitators, brethren, and mark those thus walking about as you have us an example.

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

Yea, I also entreat thee, noble yoke-fellow, assist those women, whosoever labored with me in the gospel, both along with Clement, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Whatsoever things you have indeed learned and received and heard and seen in me, do the same: and the God of peace will be with you.

But I greatly rejoice in the Lord, because indeed you have at length revived to think about me; in whatsoever you indeed were thinking, nevertheless you lacked opportunity.

I can do all things through him who fills me up with dynamite.

Moreover you did beautifully, communicating with my tribulation.

And you indeed know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the word of giving and receiving, except you alone;

because also in Thessalonica both once and twice you sent to my need.

But my God will 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.