I rejoiced 
in the Lord, 
greatly
because 
once again
you have revived 
your thoughts of me; 
with regards to which
indeed
you were thinking
but with no opportunity (to help).

It is not that I say 
(that I have) need,
for I have learned how
in whatever (situation)
I am (in)
to be (self-) sufficent.

I have known both how to be deprived ,
and I have known to (live in) abundance.

In all and every  (situation)
I have learned (how to live)
and to be filled,
and to be hungry
and to be in abundance
and to be lacking. 

I have strength to do all things
in the one who empowers me. 

Yet you have done well, 
by sharing in my trouble.

Take from us,
O God, all pride and vanity,
all boasting and self-assertion,
and give us the true courage that shows itself in gentleness,
the true wisdom that shows itself in simplicity,
and the true power that shows itself in modesty.

Charles Kingsley

In addition
whatever is truthful
whatever is honourable
whatever is just,
whatever is right,
whatever is pure, 
whatever is lovely,
whatever is winning
if there is anything excellent
of if there is anything worthy of praise
focus on these things.
And 
that which you learned and received
and heard and saw in me, 
do these things.
And the God of peace will be with you all.

O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee,
the life of the souls that love thee,
and the strength of the wills that serve thee;
help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee;
so to love thee that we may fully serve thee,
whom to serve is perfect freedom.
Amen

Rejoice in the Lord, always.
    Again I say – rejoice!

Let your graciousness be known to all people.
The Lord is near.

Stop being anxious, 
but in all things
by your petition
and your prayer
with thanksgivings
make known your requests 
to God

And the peace of God
which surpasses all thought
will guard your hearts
and your minds
in Christ Jesus. 

God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.

I strongly urge Euodia
and I strongly urge  Suntuke
    to think the same thing in the Lord.
Yes,
    I ask you also,
          true partner,
      help them,
            who have struggled side by side
                    with me
                        for the Gospel
and with Clement,
            and other coworkers 
                     whose names are in the Book of Life.

Lord God,
your feed us with the living bread from heaven.
You renew our faith
increase our hope
and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger for Christ
who is the true and living bread
and live by every word that comes from your mouth,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore,
  my beloved
  and longed for
    sisters/brothers,

          my joy
          and crown
thus
    stand firm in the Lord,
   beloved. 

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

Be,
with others,
imitators of me
  sisters / brothers
and pay attention
to those who ‘walk’ like this
as you have an example in us.

For many ‘walk’ whom I have often spoken you about
and now
crying
I speak, 
the enemies of the cross of Christ,
whose end is destruction
whose God is their stomach
and they glory in  their shame
they are people whose minds are set on earthly things. 

For our ‘place of citizenship’ exists in the heavens,
from where indeed we eagerly wait as saviour, 
the Lord Jesus Christ. 
who  will transform the body of our lowly state
(in)to sharing the likeness of the body of his glorious state
according to the working of his power
also to subject all things to himself. 

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Not that 
already
I have got (this)
nor
already 
have been made mature

but

I press on 
if indeed I can grasp  (it)
because
indeed I have been grasped
by Christ.

Sisters / brothers, 
I myself 
I am not reckoning
to have grasped (it)
but one thing- 

on the one hand
disregarding  the things that are behind
and on the other 
straining for the things that are ahead, 
I am pressing on toward the goal
to the prize of the upward call
of God
in Christ Jesus. 

So whoever is mature
let us think like this. 

And if someone thinks otherwise
God will reveal this to you.  

In any case

whatever we have attained
we must walk in step with.

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert

But these very things
    which were profit to me, 
these
   I have reckoned
          for the sake of Christ
     loss. 

But 
more
than that
   I reckon 
all things
   to be loss
          for the sake of the surpassing worth
of  knowledge of  Christ Jesus,
                                      my Lord. 
        for his sake
               I have (willingly) lost all things
               and I reckon them garbage,
   in order that I might gain Christ
   that is be found in him, 
             not having
                 of my own
               a righteousness from the Torah
                but
                    through faith in Christ, 
               the righteousness from God 
           by faith. 
    so that I may know him
that is  the power of his resurrection
              and the sharing of his sufferings
being shaped like him,
      in  his death
if in some way
I may reach the resurrection out from the dead people. 

Be thou a bright flame before me,
Be thou a guiding star above me
Be thou a smooth path below me
Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me
Today – tonight -forever
Amen.

St Columba

Although I myself also  have confidence in the flesh:
if someone thinks they have confidence in the flesh
I have even more… 

…by circumcision – an eight-dayer
genetically from Israel,
of the tribe of Benjamin,
a Hebrew from Hebrews

in regards to the Torah – a Pharisee, 
in regards to zeal, persecuting the Church
in regards to righteousness in the Torah, being faultless. 

But these things which were profit to me, 
I have reckoned them 
because of Christ
loss.

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great

Look out for the dogs,
Look out for the workers who do evil
Look out for those who make incisions 

For we are the circumcision,
-those who worship by the Spirit of God,
    and boast in Christ Jesus
and have no confidence in the flesh. 

Although I myself also  have confidence in the flesh:
if someone thinks they have confidence in the flesh
I have even more…

Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

St Ignatius