Being persuaded of this very thing, that he who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ,

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

That ye may try the things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ,

Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things concerning me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel:

So that my bonds in Christ have been made manifest in the whole palace, and to all others:

But the others out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

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 that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith:

That your rejoicing for me may abound through Christ Jesus, by my presence with you again.

Only let your behaviour be worthy the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear concerning you, that ye stand fast, in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

that ye think the same thing, having the same love, being of one soul, of one mind.

Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind, esteem each the others better than themselves.

That at the name of Jesus every knee might bow, of those in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth:

And every tongue might confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.

For it is God that worketh in you according to his good pleasure, both to will and to do.

That ye may be blameless and simple, the sons of God, unrebukable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Now I trust in the Lord Jesus, to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged, when I know your state.

But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

But I trust in the Lord, that I also myself shall come shortly.

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my need.

For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.

I have sent him therefore the more willingly, that ye seeing him again may rejoice, and that I also may be the less sorrowful.

Though I might have confidence: if any man think that he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day,

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 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 that I have already attained, or am already perfected: but I pursue, if I may apprehend that, for which I was also apprehended by Christ Jesus.

But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction,

Who will transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, acccording to the mighty working, whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful; but ye lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, to be content.

Nevertheless ye have done well, that ye did communicate to me in my affliction.

And ye know likewise, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated to me in respect of giving and receiving but you only.

Not that I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of C?sar's houshold.