Philippians 3:17–4:1

^17*Keep on imitating me, my brothers and sisters. Pay attention to those who follow the right example that we have set for you. ¹⁸I have told you this many times before, and now I repeat it with tears: there are many whose lives make them enemies of Christ’s death on the cross. ¹⁹They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world. ²⁰We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven. ²¹He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.

Instructions

4So then, my brothers and sisters, how dear you are to me and how I miss you! How happy you make me, and how proud I am of you! This then, dear brothers and sisters, is how you should stand firm in your life in the Lord.