1 Paul and Timothy, servants of (yah-HOO-shah)
Yahusha Messiah, to all the set-apart ones in (meh-SHEE-ah)Messiah Yahusha who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
2 Grace to you and peace from (el-oh-HEEM)
Elohim our Father and the Master Yahusha Messiah.
3 I thank my Elohim whenever I remember you,
4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
5 for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Yahusha Messiah.
7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
8 For Elohim is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Messiah Yahusha.
9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Messiah,
11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Yahusha Messiah, to the glory and praise of Elohim.
12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,
13 so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Messiah,
14 and that most of the brothers in (yah-HOO-ah)
Yahuah, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of Elohim without fear.
15 Some indeed preach Messiah even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
16 The former insincerely preach Messiah from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Messiah is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Yahusha Messiah,
20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Messiah will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
21 For to me to live is Messiah, and to die is gain.
22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
23 But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Messiah, which is far better.
24 Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
26 that your boasting may abound in Messiah Yahusha in me through my presence with you again.
27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Messiah, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from Elohim.
29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Messiah, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
30 having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.
1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Messiah, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
The Mind of Messiah
5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Messiah Yahusha,
6 who, existing in the form of Elohim, didn’t consider equality with Elohim a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.
9 Therefore Elohim also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Yahusha every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Yahusha Messiah is Master, to the glory of Elohim the Father.
12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is Elohim who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without complaining and arguing,
15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of Elohim without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Messiah that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
18 In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
19 But I hope in Master Yahusha to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Yahusha Messiah.
22 But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
24 But I trust in Yahuah that I myself also will come shortly.
25 But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
27 For indeed he was sick nearly to death, but Elohim had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
29 Receive him therefore in Yahuah with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
30 because for the work of Messiah he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in Yahuah! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.
3 For we are the circumcision, who worship Elohim in the Spirit, and rejoice in Messiah Yahusha, and have no confidence in the flesh;
4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the Torah, a Pharisee;
6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the Torah, found blameless.
I Count All Things Loss
7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Messiah.
8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Messiah Yahusha, my Master, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Messiah
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the Torah, but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from Elohim by faith,
10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Messiah Yahusha.
13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of Elohim in Messiah Yahusha.
15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, Elohim will also reveal that to you.
16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Messiah,
19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Master Yahusha Messiah,
21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
1 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in Yahuah in this way, my beloved.
2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in Yahuah.
3 Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Rejoice Always
4 Rejoice in Yahuah always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. Yahuah is at hand.
6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim.
7 And the peace of Elohim, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Messiah Yahusha.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
9 Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and Elohim of peace will be with you.
10 But I rejoice in Yahuah greatly that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
12 I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
I Can Do All Things
13 I can do all things through Messiah who strengthens me.
14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
15 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
18 But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to Elohim.
19 My Elohim will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Messiah Yahusha.
20 Now to our Elohim and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amein.