having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.

The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;

if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.

not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content;

but ye did well, having communicated with my tribulation;

and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;