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not being frightened in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of destruction for them, but of your salvation—and this is from God.

For it has been granted to you on Christ’s behalf not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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

But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father.

But I considered it necessary to send you Epaphroditus—my brother, coworker, and fellow soldier, as well as your messenger and minister to my need—

Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith.

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,

but our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly because once again you renewed your care for me. You were, in fact, concerned about me but lacked the opportunity to show it.

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit that is increasing to your account.

But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him—

the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.