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¹ PAUL and Ti-mo''the-us, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Jesus Christ who are at Philippi, together with the elders and deacons:² Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from our LORD Jesus Christ.

³ I give thanks to my God for your steady remembrance of me.⁴ In all my prayers for you, I make supplication with joy,⁵ For your fellowship in the gospel, from the very first day until now,⁶ Being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun the good work among you, the same will continue it until the day of our LORD Jesus Christ:

⁷ And this is the right way for me to think of you all, because I have you in my heart, because through all my imprisonment and my defense and confirmation of the truth of the gospel, you have been partakers with me of grace.⁸ For God is my witness of how much I love you through the love of Jesus Christ.

⁹ And for this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all spiritual understanding:¹⁰ So that you may choose the things that are excellent; and that you may be pure and without offence in the day of Christ;¹¹ And be filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and the praise of God.

¹² Now I would have you know this, my brethren, that my work has been greatly furthered by the gospel;¹³ And the reasons for my imprisonments have been made manifest by Christ to all Csar''s court, and to all men.¹⁴ And many of the brethren in our LORD have grown confident by my imprisonment and, with increasing boldness, speak the word of God without fear.¹⁵ While some of them preach only because of envy and strife; others preach Christ in good will and love:¹⁶ For they know that I am appointed for the defence of the gospel:¹⁷ But those who preach Christ out of contention, do it not sincerely, but do it expecting to increase the hardship of my imprisonment.¹⁸ And I have rejoiced and still do rejoice in this: that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached.¹⁹ For I know that through your prayers and the gift of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, all these things will ultimately turn out for my salvation,²⁰ Just as it is my earnest hope and expectation that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but that openly as always, so also now will Christ be magnified through my body, whether in life or death.

²¹ For Christ is my life, and to die is gain.²² Even if, in this life of the flesh, my labors bear fruits, I do not know what to choose.²³ For I am drawn between two desires, the one to depart, that I may be with Christ, which is far better:²⁴ Nevertheless, for me to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.²⁵ And this I surely know, that I shall be spared and remain for your joy and for the furtherance of your faith;²⁶ So that when I come again to you, your rejoicing in Jesus Christ will abound through me.

²⁷ Only conduct yourselves as becomes the gospel of Christ: so that whether I come and see you, or whether I am far away, I may hear of your good conduct, that you are standing firm in one spirit, and in one soul, and triumphing together through the faith of the gospel;²⁸ And that in nothing are you terrified by our adversaries, whose conduct is the sign of their own destruction, but your salvation, and this is from God.²⁹ For it has been given to you, not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for his sake.³⁰ And that you may endure such trials as those which you have seen me in, and such as you now hear that I am in.