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¹ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ I thank my God on all my remembrance of you,⁴ always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy,⁵ for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;⁶ being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus:

⁷ even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.⁸ For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;¹⁰ so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and void of offense to the day of Christ;¹¹ being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹² Now I would have you know, brothers, that the things [which happened] to me have fallen out rather to the progress of the gospel;¹³ so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;¹⁴ and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word without fear.¹⁵ Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will.¹⁶ The ones [that preach] from love know that I am set for the defense of the gospel;¹⁷ but, the ones [that] proclaim Christ insincerely from faction, think to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.¹⁸ What then? only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.¹⁹ For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.²² But if to live in the flesh, -[if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I don't know.²³ But I am in a strait between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:²⁴ yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.²⁵ And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yes, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;²⁶ that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

²⁷ Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;²⁸ and in nothing frightened by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;²⁹ because to you it has been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:³⁰ having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.