having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

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

that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ,

But I wish you to know, brothers, that the things as to me have resulted in the advancement of the gospel,

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the Praetorium and in all other places,

in Sawyer]those from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel,

for I know that this will result in salvation to me, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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

And fully believing this, I know that I shall continue, and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of the faith,

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus by me through my coming again to you.

Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

fulfil my joy, that you have the same mind, having the same love, sympathizing with each other, having one opinion.

that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth,

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

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs.

But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

and I hope in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

for he greatly desired you all and was anxious, because you heard that he was sick.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him again you may rejoice and I be less sorrowful.

because on account of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly for his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.

But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ

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

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

that I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

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

But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began again to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no opportunity [to serve me].

Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented.

I endure all things with him that strengthens me.

And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;

Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to your account.