Paul’s Uplifting Letter To Believers

To All The Saints (Believers) in Christ Jesus, GRACE to YOU (Believers) and Peace from GOD (GOD Almighty), Our (Believers) Father and The LORD, Jesus Christ.

I (Believers) thank My GOD (GOD Almighty) for Your (Believers) Fellowship in The Gospel (The Gospel of Jesus Christ), being Confident of This Very Thing, that He (Jesus Christ), Who has BEGUN a Good Work in YOU (Believers), will COMPLETE IT, until The Day of Jesus Christ; YOU (Believers) ALL ARE PARTAKERS OF GRACE.  I (Believers) Pray, that Your (Believers) Love May ABOUND Still MORE and MORE, in Knowledge and All Discernment, that YOU (Believers) may approve The Things that are Excellent, that YOU (Believers) may be Sincere and without offense, till The Day of Christ (Jesus Christ), being FILLED with The Fruits of Righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to The GLORY and Praise of GOD (GOD Almighty).

For to me (Believers), TO LIVE IS CHRIST, and to die is GAIN.  For I (Believers) am hard-pressed, between the two, having a DESIRE to Depart and BE WITH CHRIST, which is FAR BETTER.  Only, let Your (Believers) Conduct be WORTHY of The Gospel of Christ (Jesus Christ), so that YOU (Believers) STAND FAST, in One Spirit (The Holy Spirit), with One Mind Striving Together (Believers), for The Faith of The Gospel, and NOT in ANY WAY, terrified by Your (Believers) Adversaries (Unbelievers), which is to Them (Unbelievers) a PROOF of Perdition, but to YOU (Believers) of SALVATION, and that from GOD (GOD Almighty).  For to YOU (Believers), it has been GRANTED, on BEHALF of Christ (Jesus Christ), not ONLY to BELIEVE in Him (Jesus Christ), but also to SUFFER for His (Jesus Christ’s) Sake.

Therefore, if there is Any CONSOLATION in Christ (Jesus Christ), if Any COMFORT of LOVE, if Any FELLOWSHIP of The Spirit (The Holy Spirit), if Any AFFECTION and MERCY, FULFILL My (Jesus Christ’s) Joy, by BEING Like-Minded, having The SAME LOVE, BEING of One Accord, of One Mind.  Let NOTHING be done, through selfish ambition or conceit, but in Lowliness of Mind, let Each (Believers) ESTEEM Others, BETTER, than Himself (Believers).  Let Each of YOU (Believers), LOOK OUT, not ONLY for His (Believers) Own Interests, but ALSO for The Interests of Others.

 

Let THIS MIND be in YOU (Believers), which was ALSO in Christ Jesus, Who, BEING in The FORM OF GOD (GOD Almighty), did NOT consider it robbery, to BE EQUAL WITH GOD (GOD Almighty), but MADE Himself (Jesus Christ) of NO reputation, TAKING The FORM of a Bondservant, and COMING in The LIKENESS of Men (Mankind).  And being found in APPEARANCE as a Man, He (Jesus Christ) HUMBLED Himself (Jesus Christ) and BECAME OBEDIENT To The Point of Death, EVEN The Death of The Cross.  Therefore, GOD (GOD Almighty) also has HIGHLY EXALTED Him (Jesus Christ) and GIVEN Him (Jesus Christ), THE NAME, which is ABOVE EVERY NAME, that at The Name of JESUS, EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, of THOSE in Heaven, and of THOSE on Earth, and of THOSE Under The Earth, and that EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS, that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD (GOD Almighty), THE FATHER.

 

Therefore, as YOU (Believers) have always OBEYED, Work Out Your (Believers) Own Salvation, with fear and trembling; for it is GOD (GOD Almighty) Who WORKS in YOU (Believers), both to WILL and to DO, for His (GOD Almighty’s) GOOD PLEASURE.  Do All Things WITHOUT complaining and disputing, that YOU (Believers) may BECOME Blameless and Harmless, CHILDREN of GOD (GOD Almighty), without fault, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (Unbelievers), among whom (Unbelievers), YOU (Believers) SHINE AS LIGHTS in The World, HOLDING FAST, The WORD OF LIFE (The Gospel of Jesus Christ).

 

For We (Believers), Who WORSHIP GOD (GOD Almighty), in The Spirit, REJOICE in Christ Jesus, and have NO confidence in the flesh.  I (Believers) count all things loss, for The Excellence of The KNOWLEDGE of Christ Jesus, My LORD, for whom I (Believers) have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I (Believers) may GAIN Christ (Jesus Christ) and be FOUND in Him (Jesus Christ), NOT having My (Believers) Own Righteousness, which is from The Law, but that which is THROUGH Faith in Christ (Jesus Christ) , The Righteousness, which is FROM GOD (GOD Almighty) BY FAITH; that I (Believers) may KNOW Him (Jesus Christ) and The POWER of His (Jesus Christ’s) Resurrection, and The Fellowship of His (Jesus Christ’s) Sufferings, BEING CONFORMED To His (Jesus Christ’s) Death, if, by any means, I (Believers) may ATTAIN to The Resurrection from The Dead.

 

Not that I (Believers) have already ATTAINED, or am already PERFECTED; but I (Believers) PRESS ON, that I (Believers) may LAY HOLD of that, for which Christ Jesus has also LAID HOLD OF ME (Believers).  I (Believers) do NOT COUNT Myself (Believers) to have apprehended; but One Thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and REACHING FORWARD, to Those Things which are AHEAD, I (Believers) PRESS Toward THE GOAL, for THE PRIZE of The UPWARD CALL of GOD (GOD Almighty), in Christ Jesus.  Therefore, let Us (Believers), as many as are MATURE, have THIS MIND; and if in anything YOU (Believers) think otherwise, GOD (GOD Almighty) Will REVEAL even this to YOU (Believers).  Nevertheless, to The DEGREE that We (Believers) have already ATTAINED, let Us (Believers) WALK By The SAME RULE, let Us (Believers) be of The SAME MIND.

 

For many (Unbelievers) walk, of whom I (Believers) have TOLD YOU (Believers) often, and now TELL YOU (Believers) even weeping, that They (Unbelievers) are The Enemies (Unbelievers) of The Cross of Christ (Jesus Christ): Whose END IS DESTRUCTION, Whose god is Their (Unbelievers) Belly, and Whose glory is in Their (Unbelievers) Shame, Who SET Their (Unbelievers) Mind on Earthly Things.  For Our (Believers) CITIZENSHIP is in Heaven, from which We (Believers) also EAGERLY WAIT For The Savior, The LORD Jesus Christ, Who Will TRANSFORM Our (Believers) Lowly Body, that it may be COMFORMED to HIS (Jesus Christ’s) GLORIOUS BODY, According to The Working by which He (Jesus Christ) is ABLE even to SUBDUE All Things to Himself (Jesus Christ).

 

Rejoice in The LORD (Jesus Christ) Always.  Again I will say, REJOICE!  Let Your (Believers) Gentleness be KNOWN to All Men.  The LORD (Jesus Christ) is at hand.  Be anxious for nothing, but in EVERYTHING by Prayer and Supplication, with Thanksgiving, let Your (Believers) Requests, BE MADE KNOW TO GOD (GOD Almighty); and The PEACE of GOD (GOD Almighty), which SURPASSES All Understanding, will GUARD Your (Believers) Hearts and Minds, THROUGH Christ Jesus.  Whatever things are TRUE, whatever things are NOBLE, 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 PRAISEWORTHY, meditate on THESE THINGS.  The Things which YOU (Believers) LEARNED and RECEIVED and HEARD, These DO, and The GOD (GOD Almighty) of PEACE will be with YOU (Believers).

For I (Believers) have LEARNED, in whatever STATE I (Believers) am, to be CONTENT.  I (Believers) can do, ALL THINGS, THROUGH Christ (Jesus Christ), who STRENGTHENS Me (Believers).  GOD (GOD Almighty) Shall SUPPLY All Your (Believers) NEED, according to His (GOD Almighty) RICHES, in GLORY, by Christ Jesus.  Now, to Our GOD (GOD Almighty) and Father be GLORY, Forever and ever.  Amen.  The GRACE of Our (Believers) Lord Jesus Christ be with YOU (Believers) All.  Amen.

Fellow Believers, These Scriptures are from Paul’s Letter to The Philippians, a very uplifting message, which means as much, if not more, to Believers today, as it did to The Early Church, when Paul wrote it.  May These Scriptures UPLIFT Your (Believers) Spirit and PREPARE YOU (Believers) for EVERY Good Work.  Amen.