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

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

The former insincerely proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I do not make known what I will choose.

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

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

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.