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-\v 1 I, Paul, am writing this to the dear fellow believers who live in the city of Philippi. We, Paul and Timothy, are sending this letter to all of you in Philippi whom God has set apart for himself, you who are joined to Christ Jesus. We are also sending this letter to the overseers and deacons who are serving there.
+\v 1 I, Paul, am writing this to the dear fellow believers who live in the city of Philippi. Paul and Timothy send this letter to all of you in Philippi whom God has set apart for himself, you who are joined to Christ Jesus. We are also sending this letter to the overseers and deacons who are serving there.
 \v 2 We pray that God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord will be kind to you and give you peace.
 
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-\v 3 I thank my God as I pray to him, whenever I think about you.
+\v 3 I thank my God as I pray to him whenever I think about you.
 \v 4 I am constantly praying for you with joy
 \v 5 and thanking God because you are working with Timothy, me, and others in proclaiming the good news from the first day you believed until now.
 \v 6 I know that God is doing very good things among you. I am completely confident that he will finish those things at the time when Jesus Christ returns.
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-\v 14 Do everything without complaining or arguing,
+\v 14 Do everything without complaining or arguing
 \v 15 so that you neither do nor think of anything wrong as you live among unbelievers, since many of these are wicked people who call evil good. Among these wicked people you should be like the stars at night that shine in the midst of darkness.
 \v 16 Keep trusting in the message that can make you live forever. If you do this, I will rejoice at the time when Christ returns, because then I will know that I did not work among you uselessly.
 
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 \v 19 I am trusting in the Lord Jesus to be able to send Timothy to you soon. I hope that when he returns, he will encourage me by telling me about what God is doing in your lives.
-\v 20 I have no one else like Timothy who genuinely cares for you.
+\v 20 I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares for you.
 \v 21 All the others whom I might send to you are concerned only about their own matters. They are not concerned enough about what Jesus Christ considers important.
 
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 \v 1 Finally, my fellow believers, continue to rejoice because you belong to the Lord. Though I will now write to you about those same matters that I mentioned to you before, this does not make me tired, and it will protect you from those who would like to harm you.
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 \v 2 Beware of those people who are as dangerous to you as wild dogs. They do evil by requiring men to become Jews, and so they mutilate men's bodies.
-\v 3 But as for us—the Spirit of God enables us to truly worship God; we rejoice because we trust in Christ Jesus; and the rituals or ceremonies that people perform mean nothing to us. Therefore we ourselves are what it truly means to be circumcised.
+\v 3 But as for us, the Spirit of God enables us to truly worship God, we rejoice because we trust in Christ Jesus, and the rituals or ceremonies that people perform mean nothing to us. Therefore we ourselves are what it truly means to be circumcised.
 
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 \v 4 If anyone could have done enough things to please God, it would have been me.
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 \v 7 But everything that I then considered to be important I now consider to be worthless, because Christ has changed me.
 
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-\v 8 Instead, even more I now consider all things as not only worthless, but as useless garbage to throw away, compared to how great it is to know Christ Jesus my Lord. I have removed from my life everything worthless, in order to benefit from Christ.
+\v 8 Instead, even more I now consider all things as not only worthless, but as useless garbage to throw away, compared to how great it is to know Christ Jesus my Lord. I have removed from my life everything worthless in order to benefit from Christ.
 \v 9 I now belong completely to Christ. I know that I cannot make myself good in God's sight by keeping the law. Instead I trust totally in Christ, so God has declared me good in His sight.
-\v 10 When God declared me good in his sight, he did this so that I could begin to know Christ; so that God could begin to work in me with the same power with which he raised Christ from the dead; so that I could begin to suffer along with Christ as he suffered; and so that Christ could make me more like him when he died.
+\v 10 When God declared me good in his sight, he did this so that I could begin to know Christ, so that God could begin to work in me with the same power with which he raised Christ from the dead, so that I could begin to suffer along with Christ as he suffered, and so that Christ could make me more like him when he died.
 \v 11 All of this is because I fully expect that God will cause me to live again, as he has promised.
 
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-\v 12 I do not claim that all of these things have fully happened to me yet. But I keep trying to receive these things, because these things are why Christ Jesus took possession of me.
-\v 13 My fellow believers, I certainly do not yet think that all these things have completely happened to me. But I am like a runner, because I do not look backward as I run toward the finish line.
-\v 14 Instead, I keep running toward the finish line, in order to win the prize, which is to live forever with God. This is what God has called me for, and what Christ Jesus has made possible.
+\v 12 I do not claim that all of these things have fully happened to me, yet I keep trying to receive these things because these things are why Christ Jesus took possession of me.
+\v 13 My fellow believers I certainly do not yet think that all these things have completely happened to me. But I am like a runner, because I do not look backward as I run toward the finish line.
+\v 14 Instead, I keep running toward the finish line, in order to win the prize, which is to live forever with God. This is what God has called me for and what Christ Jesus has made possible.
 
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 \v 15 So all of us who have become strong believers should think this same way. But if any of you do not think this same way, God will reveal this to you.
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-\v 17 My fellow believers, join with me and imitate me, and observe closely those people who live as I do, and imitate our example.
+\v 17 My fellow believers, join with others who follow our example, and watch closely those who live according to the example we gave you.
 \v 18 There are many people who say that they believe in Christ, but they really oppose what he did on the cross for us. I have told you about those people many times before, and now I am sad, even crying, as I tell you about them again.
 \v 19 God will destroy them in the end because their god is their desire to eat, and they live shamefully and think about things of the earth.
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 \v 1 My fellow believers, I love you and I long for you. You give me joy; you will be the reason for which God will reward me. Dear friends, continue to believe firmly in the Lord, as I have described to you in this letter.
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-\v 2 I urge you, Euodia, and I urge you, Syntyche, to again have a peaceful relationship with each other, because you are both joined to the Lord Jesus.
+\v 2 I urge Euodia, and I urge Syntyche, because you belong to the Lord, stop arguing with each other.
 \v 3 And I also urge you, my faithful partner, please help these women. They have faithfully proclaimed the good news and worked with me, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow laborers, whose names are in The Book of Life in which God has written the names of all those people who will live forever.
 
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-\v 4 Always rejoice for the Lord Jesus! I say again, rejoice!
+\v 4 Always be glad because of the Lord! I say again, rejoice!
 \v 5 All people must see that you are gentle because the Lord is near.
 \v 6 Do not worry about anything. Instead, in every situation pray to God, tell him exactly what you need, and ask him to help you. And thank God for all he does for you.
-\v 7 Then God's peace, which is much greater than we can understand, will be like a soldier that is guarding how you feel and how you think, as we are joined to Christ Jesus.
+\v 7 Then God's peace, which is much greater than you can understand, will be like a soldier that is guarding how you feel and think as you are joined to Christ Jesus.
 
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 \v 15 My friends there at Philippi, you yourselves know that during the time I first proclaimed the good news to you, when I left there to go away from the province of Macedonia, no assembly of believers sent me funds or helped me in any way except you only!
 \v 16 Even when I was in the city of Thessalonica, you sent money more than once to supply what I needed.
-\v 17 I say this, not because I desire that you give me money now. Instead, I want to see you do even more things that God will praise you for.
+\v 17 I do not say this so that you will give me money now. Instead, I want to see you do even more things that God will praise you for.
 
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-\v 18 I have plenty of things now. I have so many things that you sent me through Epaphroditus. These things are like when priests burn an animal sacrifice to God and it smells good to him.
+\v 18 I have received enough money to meet the need, and even more than we need. I have received the gifts you send by Epaphroditus. These gifts are like a sweet-smelling offering that the priests would burn on the altar and those gifts you sent are pleasing to God just like the sweet-smelling offering were pleasing to him.
 \v 19 God, whom I serve, will supply everything you need because you belong to Jesus Christ, who owns the splendor and wealth of heaven.
 \v 20 So people should praise God our Father, who will rule forever and ever in brilliant light! Amen!