<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">who though he existed in the form of God<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">did not regard equality with Godp> <p class="poetry">as something to be grasped,p>

<p class="poetry">so that at the name of Jesusp> <p class="poetry">every knee will bowp> <p class="poetry">&#8211; in heaven and on earth and under the earth &#8211;p>

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

For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you.<n id="1" />

So I hope to send him as soon as I know more about my situation,

So welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him,

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

<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.

My confident hope<n id="1" /> is that I will in no way be ashamed<n id="2" /> but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.<n id="3" />

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" />

since you are encountering<n id="1" /> the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.<n id="2" />p>

<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.

Therefore let those of us who are &#8220;perfect&#8221; embrace this point of view.<n id="1" /> If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Be imitators of me,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

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

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.