<p class="bodytext">I appeal to Euodia and to Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

For even in Thessalonica<n id="1" /> on more than one occasion<n id="2" /> you sent something for my need.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Give greetings to all the saints in Christ Jesus. The brothers<n id="1" /> with me here send greetings.

<t /><p class="bodytext">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,<n id="1" />

Yes, I say also to you, true companion,<n id="1" /> help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry<n id="2" /> along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.

For I am sure of this very thing,<n id="1" /> that the one<n id="2" /> who began a good work in<n id="3" /> you will perfect it<n id="4" /> until the day of Christ Jesus.

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

Now if I am to go on living in the body,<n id="1" /> this will mean productive work<n id="2" /> for me, yet I don&#8217;t know which I prefer:<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit,<n id="1" /> any affection or mercy,<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">but emptied himselfp> <p class="poetry">by taking on the form of a slave,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">by looking like other men,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and by sharing in human nature.<n id="3" />p>

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort &#8211; for the sake of his good pleasure &#8211; is God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.

with this goal in mind,<n id="1" /> I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God<n id="2" /> in Christ Jesus.

But our citizenship is in heaven &#8211; and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

<t /><p class="bodytext">So then, my brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!p>

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

For<n id="1" /> it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart,<n id="2" /> since both in my imprisonment<n id="3" /> and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God&#8217;s grace<n id="4" /> together with me.

and most of the brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> having confidence in the Lord<n id="2" /> because of my imprisonment, now more than ever<n id="3" /> dare to speak the word<n id="4" /> fearlessly.p>

What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.p> <p class="bodytext">Yes,<n id="1" /> and I will continue to rejoice,

and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is<n id="1" /> a sign of their<n id="2" /> destruction, but of your salvation &#8211; a sign which<n id="3" /> is from God.