having confidence as to this same thing, that the one having begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Jesus Christ:

as it is righteous for me to think in behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, that you are all my fellow-partakers of the grace.

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

in order that you may distinguish those things which differ; that you may be pure and without offence in the day of Christ;

But I wish you, brethren, to know that the affairs appertaining to me have turned out rather unto the promotion of the gospel.

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the pretorian army, and to all the rest;

the latter from divine love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel:

the former from self-seeking are proclaiming Christ insincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

For what is it? moreover that in every place, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and I rejoice in this, yes, and I will rejoice.

For I know that this will turn out to me unto 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 with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

And having confidence in this, I know that I shall abide with you all, unto your promotion and the joy of your faith;

in order that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may abound in me through my coming again unto you.

Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;

fill my joy, that you may think the same thing, having the same divine love, being like-minded, thinking this one thing;

that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves;

looking not each after your own interests, but each after that of others.

that at the name of Jesus every knee must bow, of things in heaven and things upon the earth and things beneath the earth,

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

in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

But I hope in the Lord Jesus, speedily to send unto you Timothy, in order that I may also be delighted, having learned the things concerning you.

But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.

but I trust in the Lord that I myself will come speedily.

since he was longing after you all, and grieving, because you heard that he was sick.

For he was indeed nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not only him, but me also, in order that I may not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I the more diligently, in order that, seeing him, you may rejoice again, and I may not be without sorrow.

because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me.

Yes truly, I even counted all things loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I suffer the loss of all things, and I consider them but excrements, that I may gain Christ,

and may be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ, the righteousness of God through faith:

Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it;

And the peace of God, that passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Not that I speak concerning deficiency: for I have learned to be content with those things amid which I am.

And you indeed know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the word of giving and receiving, except you alone;

Not that I seek a gift; but I seek fruit abounding to your credit.