Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Philippians | Page 3

brother and comrade both in labour and in arms, and is your messenger who has ministered to my needs. 002:026 I send him because he is longing to see you all and is distressed at your having heard of his illness. 002:027 For it is true that he has been ill, and was apparently at the point of death; but God had pity on him, and not only on him, but also on me, to save me from having sorrow upon sorrow. 002:028 I am therefore all the more eager to send him, in the hope that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have the less sorrow. 002:029 Receive him therefore with heartfelt Christian joy, and hold in honour men like him; 002:030 because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me. 003:001 In conclusion, my brethren, be joyful in the Lord. For me to give you the same warnings as before is not irksome to me, while so far as you are concerned it is a safe precaution. 003:002 Beware of `the dogs,' the bad workmen, the self-mutilators. 003:003 For we are the true circumcision--we who render to God a spiritual worship and make our boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in outward ceremonies: 003:004 although I myself might have some excuse for confidence in outward ceremonies. If any one else claims a right to trust in them, far more may I: 003:005 circumcised, as I was, on the eighth day, a member of the race of Israel and of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew sprung from Hebrews; as to the Law a Pharisee; 003:006 as to zeal, a persecutor of the Church; as to the righteousness which comes through Law, blameless. 003:007 Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss. 003:008 Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him, 003:009 not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ--the righteousness which comes from God through faith. 003:010 I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection, and to share in His sufferings and die even as He died; 003:011 in the hope that I may attain to the resurrection from among the dead. 003:012 I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me. 003:013 Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me, 003:014 with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus. 003:015 Therefore let all of us who are mature believers cherish these thoughts; and if in any respect you think differently, that also God will make clear to you. 003:016 But whatever be the point that we have already reached, let us persevere in the same course. 003:017 Brethren, vie with one another in imitating me, and carefully observe those who follow the example which we have set you. 003:018 For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ. 003:019 Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted to earthly things. 003:020 We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, 003:021 who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject all things to Himself, will transform this body of our humiliation until it resembles His own glorious body. 004:001 Therefore, my brethren, dearly loved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my dearly-loved ones. 004:002 I entreat Euodia, and I entreat Syntyche, to be of one mind, as sisters in Christ. 004:003 Yes, and I beg you also, my faithful yoke-fellow, to help these women who have shared my toil in connection with the Good News, together with Clement and the