because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,

being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Life Worthy of the Gospel

Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for the faith of the gospel

as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

I hope, therefore, to send him as soon as I see how things go with me.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety.

circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;

Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only;