grace be unto you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

in every prayer of mine) for your attachment to the gospel, from the first day even till now;

Only behave worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of you, that ye stand firm in one Spirit, striving together as with one soul for the saith of the gospel;

and are in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is a demonstration of ruin to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

For to you it is granted as a favor from Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for his sake:

who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be as God.

Yet He emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, when made in the likeness of men:

from whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ: who will change our vile body,

And ye Philippians know, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I was departing from Macedonia, no church communicated to me on the score of giving and receiving, but you only.