being confident of this very thing, that he who began in you a good work, will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus;

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

so that ye may approve the things that are most excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence against the day of Christ,

But I wish you to know, brethren, that things with me have resulted in the furtherance of the gospel;

so that my bonds have become known in connection with Christ in the whole camp of the imperial guards, and to all the rest;

and that the great part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

They who are of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

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

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so also now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your advancement and joy in your faith,

that your glorying in me, in the cause of Christ Jesus, may be more abundant by my coming to you again.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries; which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation; and that from God;

make my joy full, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, with union of soul cherishing one mind;

doing nothing in the spirit of faction, or in the spirit of vainglory, but in humility esteeming others as better than yourselves;

that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth,

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God, the Father.

that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,

holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I know your state.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son serves a father, he served with me for the gospel.

but I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come soon.

for he was longing after you all, and was much troubled, because ye heard that he was sick.

I send him therefore the more speedily, that when ye see him ye may again rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

though I myself have reason for confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath reason for confidence in the flesh, I more;

Nay more, I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, that I may gain Christ,

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith;

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while becoming like him in his death,

Not that I have already obtained, or have been already perfected; but I press on, if I may also lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ.

Brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth to the things that are before,

Nevertheless, whereto we have reached, in that let us walk.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ;

who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it shall be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of the power with which he is able to subdue all things to himself.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord;

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived again in your care for my welfare; for which indeed ye cared before, but lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak on account of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.

And ye yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in an account of giving and receiving, but ye only;

Not that I seek for such a gift, but I do seek for fruit that may abound to your account.