I thank my God with all remembrance of you,

always in all my prayers for you all, and pray with gladness,

as it becometh me so to judge of you all, because I have you in my heart, and have you also every one companions of grace with me, even in my bonds as I defend, and establish the gospel.

For God beareth me record how greatly I long after you all from the very heart-root in Jesus Christ.

And this I pray, that your love may increase more and more in knowledge, and in all feeling,

I would ye understood, brethren, that my business is happened unto the greater furthering of the gospel.

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest throughout all the judgment hall: and in all other places;

Insomuch that many of the brethren in the Lord are boldened through my bonds, and dare more largely speak the word without fear.

The one part preacheth Christ of strife, and not purely, supposing to add more adversity to my bonds.

For I know that this shall chance to my salvation, through your prayer, and ministering of the spirit of Jesus Christ,

as I heartily look for and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed: but that with all confidence, as always in times past, even so now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be through life, or else death.

For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.

If it chance me to live in the flesh, that is to me fruitful for to work, and what to choose I know not.

that ye may more abundantly rejoice in Jesus Christ through me, by my coming to you again.

Only let your conversation be, as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may yet hear of you, that ye continue in one spirit, and in one soul laboring as we do to maintain the faith of the gospel,

and have even the same fight which ye saw me have and now hear of me.

fulfil my joy, that ye draw one way, having one love, being of one accord, and of one mind,

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, as ye have always obeyed - not when I was present only, but now much more in mine absence - even so work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

that ye may be faultless, and pure, and the sons of God; without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation, among which see that ye shine as lights in the world,

holding fast the word of life, unto my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither have laboured in vain.

For the same cause also, rejoice ye, and rejoice ye with me.

I trust in the Lord Jesus for to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know what case ye stand in.

For I have no man that is so like minded to me, which with so pure affection careth for your matters.

Ye know the proof of him, how that as a son with the father, so with me bestowed he his labour upon the gospel.

Him I hope to send as soon as I know how it will go with me.

I supposed it necessary to send brother Epaphroditus unto you, my companion in labour and fellow soldier, your apostle, and my minister at my needs.

and no doubt he was sick, and that nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him: not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow.

because that for the work of Christ he went so far, that he was nigh unto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfill that service which was lacking on your part toward me.

Moreover, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. It grieveth me not to write one thing often to you. For to you it is a sure thing.

But the things that were vantage unto me I counted loss for Christ's sake.

Yea I think all things but loss for that excellent knowledge's sake of Christ Jesus my Lord. For whom I have counted all thing loss, and do judge them but dung, that I might win Christ,

Not as though I had already attained to it, either were already perfect: but I follow, if that I may comprehend that, wherein I am comprehended of Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself that I have gotten it: but one thing I say: I forget that which is behind me, and stretch myself unto that which is before me;

Nevertheless in that whereunto we are come, let us proceed by one rule, that we may be of one accord.

Brethren, be followers of me, and look on them which walk even so, as ye have us for an example.

which shall change into another fashion our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

Therefore my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so continue in the Lord, ye beloved.

Yea, and I beseech thee faithful yokefellow, help the women which laboured with me in the gospel, and with Clement also, and with others, my labour fellows, whose names are in the book of life.

which ye have both learned and received, heard and also seen in me: those things do, and the God of peace shall be with you.

I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at the last ye are revived again to care for me in that wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

I can do all things through the help of Christ, which strengtheneth me.

Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye bare part with me in my tribulation.

Ye of Philippi know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no congregation bare part with me as concerning giving and receiving but ye only.

For when I was in Thessalonica, ye sent once, and afterward again, unto my needs:

My God fulfill all your needs through his glorious riches in Jesus Christ.

Salute all the saints in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.