For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.

I have great joy in the Lord because now at last you have again expressed your concern for me. (Now I know you were concerned before but had no opportunity to do anything.)

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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

For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace together with me.

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

For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

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

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

and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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

May glory be given to God our Father forever and ever. Amen.

Give greetings to all the saints in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me here send greetings.

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.

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

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

The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore let those of us who are “perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.