for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

Some indeed proclaim the Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to bring affliction to my bonds.

But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not.

And not being frightened in anything by those who oppose, which is indeed a sign of destruction to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

Because to you it was granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,

fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness,

Look ye out (each man) not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.

Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.

But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and co-workman and fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

For also he was sick, near death, but God was merciful to him, and not only him, but also me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in Lord. To write the same things to you is really not irksome to me, but safe for you.

For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith--the righteousness from God based on faith--

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead,

Not that I speak regarding need, for I have learned in what things I am to be content.

And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good-news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only,

because also in Thessalonica ye sent both once and again to my need.

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.

And my God will fill your every need according to his wealth in glory in Christ Jesus.