For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you.

complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.

You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

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

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

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that – whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent – I should hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness – a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

All the saints greet you, especially those who belong to Caesar’s household.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,

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.

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,