Henceforth let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.

do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

the eyes of your mind being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope belonging to his call of you, and what the riches of the glory of the inheritance which he hath given among the saints,

For this cause [I bend my knees], I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you gentiles;

if, indeed, ye heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given me toward you,

that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

whereby, when ye read, ye may perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ;

of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, given to me according to the effectual working of his power.

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to make known among the gentiles the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of Christ,

For this cause I bend my knees to the Father,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, ye having been rooted and grounded in love,

that ye may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and borne about by every wind of teaching, through the dishonest tricks of men, and their cunning in the wily arts of error;

but cleaving to truth in love, may grow up in all things unto him who is the head, even Christ;

Let him that stealeth steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands at that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

Let no foul language proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for edification, as the need may be, that it may benefit the hearers;

"that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live long on the earth."

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil;

Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

and for me, that utterance may be given me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,

in behalf of which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may proclaim it boldly, as I ought to speak.

But that ye also may know about me, how I am faring, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will inform you of everything;

whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that ye may know about us, and that he may comfort your hearts.

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy

even as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, all of you being sharers of the grace bestowed on me.

For God is my witness how much I long for you all in the tender affection of Christ Jesus.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all discernment;

so that ye may approve the things that are most excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence against the day of Christ,

But I wish you to know, brethren, that things with me have resulted in the furtherance of the gospel;

so that my bonds have become known in connection with Christ in the whole camp of the imperial guards, and to all the rest;

and that the great part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

but they who are of a factious spirit preach Christ with no pure intent, thinking to stir up affliction to my bonds.

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so also now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But if to live in the flesh, if this is to me the fruit of my labor, then what I should choose, I cannot say;

that your glorying in me, in the cause of Christ Jesus, may be more abundant by my coming to you again.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

as ye have the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

make my joy full, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, with union of soul cherishing one mind;

So then, my beloved, as ye always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

that ye may be blameless and pure, children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world,

holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.

For the same reason, do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I know your state.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son serves a father, he served with me for the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, as soon as I see how it will go with me;

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and minister to my wants;

For indeed he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

I send him therefore the more speedily, that when ye see him ye may again rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

because he was near to death on account of the work, hazarding his life to supply what was wanting on your part in the ministration to me.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; to write the same things to you, to me is not burdensome, and for you it is safe.

But whatever things were gain to me, those for the sake of Christ I have counted but loss.

Nay more, I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, that I may gain Christ,

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith;

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while becoming like him in his death,

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained, or have been already perfected; but I press on, if I may also lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ.

Brethren, be ye followers together of me, and mark those who walk as ye have us for an example.

Therefore, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

yea, I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, give them aid; since they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellowlaborers, whose names are in the book of life.

The things which ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace will be with you.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived again in your care for my welfare; for which indeed ye cared before, but lacked opportunity.

I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me.

Notwithstanding, ye did well in sharing with me in my distress.

And ye yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in an account of giving and receiving, but ye only;

for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my necessity.

Not that I seek for such a gift, but I do seek for fruit that may abound to your account.

But my God will supply all your need according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me salute you.

On this account we also, from the day we heard of it, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

that ye may walk worthily of the Lord so as to please him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

And he is the head of the body, the church; since he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be in all things preeminent;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

of which I became a minister, according to the stewardship which God entrusted to me, for you, to fulfill the word of God,

whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

to which end I also am laboring, striving earnestly through his working, which worketh within me mightily.

For I would have you know what a great struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

that their hearts may be encouraged, they being knit together in love, and that they may attain to all the riches of a full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;

And this I say, that no one may impose on you by specious discourses.

praying at the same time for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for the sake of which I am also in bonds;

that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one.

Of all my affairs Tychicus will inform you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord;

whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that he may know your condition, and comfort your hearts;

Aristarchus, my fellowprisoner, saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom ye received directions (if he come to you, receive him),

and Jesus, who is called Justus; who are of the circumcision; these only are my fellowworkers for the kingdom of God, who have been an encouragement unto me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

The salutation by the hand of me, Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.

hindering us from speaking to the gentiles that they may be saved,to fill up their sins always! But the wrath is come upon them to the end.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may supply that which is lacking in your faith?

in order that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.

that ye may walk becomingly toward those without, and may have need of nothing.

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are sleeping, that ye may not sorrow, as others do, who have no hope.

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved whole, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and perfect [in you] all pleasure in goodness, and the work of faith, with power;

that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And now ye know what restraineth, in order that he may be revealed in his own time.