grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

because of your fellowship with the gospel, from the first day until now;

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in the likeness of men;

if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among the dead.

for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,

But I have all things in full supply and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things sent from you, an odour of sweet savour, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to God.