being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you, will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ;

who, being in the form of God, did not think it an act of robbery to be equal with God;

that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow of those who are in heaven, and those who are on earth, and those who are under the earth;

for it is God, who, of his good pleasure, works in you both the will and the power to perform.

that you may be without reproach and Harmless, the children of God, without blame, in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as luminaries in the world,

for I have no one of a kindred spirit who will sincerely care for your condition:

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labor and fellow-soldier, but your apostle, who also ministered to my want,

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

Yes, verily, I also count all things to be loss, for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them to be refuse, that I may gain Christ,

Be imitators of me, brethren, and observe those who thus walk as you have us for an example.

For many walk, of whom I often said to you, and now say even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of the Christ,

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

who will transform our humbled body, and make it like his glorious body, according to that power by which he is able to subdue all things to himself.

Now I beseech you also, true yoke-fellow, to assist those women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and my other fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

I am able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

All the saints salute you, especially those who are of Caesar's household.