so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ;

so that my imprisonment for Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,

so that your proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

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

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me;

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may have less anxiety.

So receive him in the Lord with all joy; and honor men like him,

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice!

All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household.