PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

filled with fruits of righteousness, which by Jesus Christ are to the glory and praise of God.

Now I wish you, brethren, to know, that the things which have befallen me have rather conduced to the progress of the gospel;

and not dismayed on any occasion by your adversaries; which is indeed the proof of perdition to them, but of salvation to you, and that from God.

experiencing the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear to be in me.

Let the same sentiment of mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Wherefore God also hath transcendently exalted him, and bestowed on him a name which is above every name:

for in the work of Christ he was nigh unto death indifferent about life, that he might afford me that service which it was not in your power to render me.

respecting the law, a Pharisee; with regard to zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is by the law, blameless.

and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is by the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Not that I have already attained, or am now perfect: but I pursue, that I may overtake that for which also by his apprehension of me I am destined by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before,

And the peace of God which surpasseth all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Now I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that now once more your thoughtful attention about me hath again sprung up, to which also your mind had been disposed, but ye had not found the opportunity.