I want you to know, brothers and sisters, ¹  that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel: ² 

for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance ¹  through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

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, ¹ 

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,

Beware of the dogs, ¹  beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh! ² 

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment. ¹ 

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

Each of you should be concerned ¹  not only ²  about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well. ³ 

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

Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.

and so, somehow, ¹  to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

by holding on to ¹  the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

For ¹  it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, ²  since both in my imprisonment ³  and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace ⁴  together with me.

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, ¹  and I will continue to rejoice,

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.

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 

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.