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

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

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ;

But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel;

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

But the other from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.

For I know that this will turn 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 ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

That your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.

Only let your manner of life be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind 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.

Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things 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 harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

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

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

Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

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

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

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath reason to trust in the flesh, I more:

Yes doubtless, and I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them to be dung, that I may win Christ,

And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through the faith of 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 as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I pursue, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended by Christ Jesus.

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

Who will change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.

I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the 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 whatever state I am, with that to be content.

Notwithstanding ye have done well, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

Now, ye Philippians, know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

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

All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Cesar's household.