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Paul and Timothy, bond-servants of Christ Jesus,
To eall the 1fsaints in Christ Jesus who are in gPhilippi, 2including the hoverseers and ideacons: |
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| Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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| I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, |
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| always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all, |
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| in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now. |
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| For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. |
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| For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me. |
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| For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. |
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| And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, |
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| so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; |
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| having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. |
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| Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel, |
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| so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else, |
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| and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear. |
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| Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from good will; |
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| the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel; |
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| the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my bimprisonment. |
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What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice.
Yes, and I will rejoice, |
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| for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, |
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| according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. |
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