always when offering any prayer on behalf of you all, finding a joy in offering it.

And I have a right to feel in this way about you all, because both when I am in prison and when I am defending and vindicating our right to preach the good news, I have you in my heart as all sharing that privilege with me.

so that you may be able to choose what is best and be pure and blameless until the day when the Messiah returns,

Then your rejoicing in the Messiah Jesus will increase along with mine when I visit with you again.

but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.

When he had assumed human form, he still further humbled himself and carried his obedience so far as to die, and to die upon the cross.

And so, when Jesus' name is called, the knees of everyone should fall, wherever they're residing.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, as ye have always obeyed - not when I was present only, but now much more in mine absence - even so work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

as you hold firmly to the word of life. Then I will be proud when the Messiah returns that I did not run in vain or work hard in vain.

And yet, even if, when your faith is offered as a sacrifice to God, my life-blood must be poured out in addition, still I shall rejoice and share the joy of you all;

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you.

him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me -- immediately;

I sent him therefore the diligentlier, that when ye should see him, ye might rejoice again, and I might be the less sorrowful.

circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee;

nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,

And [when you do], the peace from God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and thoughts [from anxiety] in [fellowship with] Christ Jesus.

And you very well know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I had left Macedonia, no church but yourselves had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving.

For when I was in Thessalonica, ye sent once, and afterward again, unto my needs: