Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

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

for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

But I want you to know, brothers, that the things in respect to me have come more for the advancement of the good-news,

But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good-news.

For I know that this will turn out to me for salvation (through your entreaty, and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ)

according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death.

And having been convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and will continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith.

So that your pride may abound in Christ Jesus in me because of my presence with you again.

Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o

fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness,

Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus,

so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly,

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

so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

But I hope in Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be cheerful when I know the things about you.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child to a father, he served with me for the good-news.

And I trust in Lord that I myself also will come soon.

since he was longing for you all, and distressed because ye heard that he was sick.

For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I sent him more urgently, so that having seen him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful.

Because for sake of the work of the Christ he came near the point of death, handing over his life so that he might fill up the deficiency of your service toward me.

But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain C

and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith--the righteousness from God based on faith--

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

But I rejoiced in Lord greatly that now at last ye have revived thinking about me, in which also ye were thinking, but ye lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak regarding need, for I have learned in what things I am to be content.

And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good-news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only,

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.