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

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.

And since I am sure of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for the sake of your progress and joy in the faith,

– though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.

I have experienced times of need and times of abundance. In any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of contentment, whether I go satisfied or hungry, have plenty or nothing.

And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

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

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content in any circumstance.

The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ,

What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

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.

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,

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.