always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all,

so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the praetorian guard and to everyone else,

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from goodwill;

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But not only that, I also will rejoice,

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

although I myself could boast as having confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he is confident in the flesh, I have more reason:

Not that I have already grasped it all or have already become perfect, but I press on if I may also take hold of that for which I was even taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even as I weep, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ,

who will transform the body of our lowly condition into conformity with His glorious body, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

I know how to get along with little, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.

for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.

But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.