so that you can approve the things that are superior and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ,

Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in the advance of the gospel,

What does it matter? Just that in every way, whether out of false motives or true, Christ is proclaimed. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,

Do what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.