For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you. ¹ 

complete my joy and be of the same mind, ¹  by having the same love, being united in spirit, ²  and having one purpose.

You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had, ¹ 

I am able to do all things ¹  through the one ²  who strengthens me.

For even in Thessalonica ¹  on more than one occasion ²  you sent something for my need.

Only conduct yourselves ¹  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 ²  you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel, ³ 

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition ¹  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, ¹  that the one ²  who began a good work in ³  you will perfect it ⁴  until the day of Christ Jesus.

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, ¹  I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: ²  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 ¹  – a righteousness from God that is in fact ²  based on Christ’s ³  faithfulness. ⁴ 

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

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. ¹ 

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.

¹ who though he existed in the form of God ²  did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

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

I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee. ¹ 

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.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world ¹