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he humbled himself still more by becoming obedient even to death — death on a stake as a criminal!

Therefore God raised him to the highest place and gave him the name above every name;

that in honor of the name given Yeshua, every knee will bow — in heaven, on earth and under the earth —

and every tongue will acknowledge that Yeshua the Messiah is Adonai — to the glory of God the Father.

for God is the one working among you both the willing and the working for what pleases him.

as you hold on to the Word of Life. If you do this, I will be able to boast, when the Day of the Messiah comes, that I did not run or toil for nothing.

But I hope in the Lord Yeshua to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I too may be cheered by knowing how you are doing.

people all put their own interests ahead of the Messiah Yeshua’s.

and I am confident in the Lord that before long I myself will come too.

So give him a joyful welcome in the Lord; honor such people.

For he risked his life and nearly died working for the Messiah, in order to give me the help you were not in a position to give.

In conclusion, my brothers: rejoice in union with the Lord. It is no trouble for me to repeat what I have written you before, and for you it will be a safeguard:

For it is we who are the Circumcised, we who worship by the Spirit of God and make our boast in the Messiah Yeshua! We do not put confidence in human qualifications,

But the things that used to be advantages for me, I have, because of the Messiah, come to consider a disadvantage.

Not only that, but I consider everything a disadvantage in comparison with the supreme value of knowing the Messiah Yeshua as my Lord. It was because of him that I gave up everything and regard it all as garbage, in order to gain the Messiah

and be found in union with him, not having any righteousness of my own based on legalism, but having that righteousness which comes through the Messiah’s faithfulness, the righteousness from God based on trust.

Yes, I gave it all up in order to know him, that is, to know the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings as I am being conformed to his death,

It is not that I have already obtained it or already reached the goal — no, I keep pursuing it in the hope of taking hold of that for which the Messiah Yeshua took hold of me.

I keep pursuing the goal in order to win the prize offered by God’s upward calling in the Messiah Yeshua.

For many — I have told you about them often before, and even now I say it with tears — live as enemies of the Messiah’s execution-stake.

But we are citizens of heaven, and it is from there that we expect a Deliverer, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

He will change the bodies we have in this humble state and make them like his glorious body, using the power which enables him to bring everything under his control.

So, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and my crown, my dear friends, keep standing firm in union with the Lord.

I beg Evodia and I beg Syntyche to agree with each other in union with the Lord.

Rejoice in union with the Lord always! I will say it again: rejoice!