And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.

But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

For even in Thessalonica on more than one occasion you sent something for my need.

Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer:

for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Yes, I say also to you, true companion, help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.

And as you Philippians know, at the beginning of my gospel ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in this matter of giving and receiving except you alone.