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deem it important to send Epaphroditus to you now-- he is my 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