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For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,
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rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
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And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
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Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
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I have no one else like him, who will show genuine concern for your welfare.
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But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.
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I hope, therefore, to send him as soon as I see how things go with me.
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Indeed he was ill, and almost died. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
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Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety.
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So then, welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him,
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and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
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I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
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who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
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I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
