11Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:+2Grace
be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and
from the Lord Jesus Christ.+
3I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,+4Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,+5For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;+6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform
it until the day of Jesus Christ:+7Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.+8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.+9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and
in all judgment;+10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;+11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.+
12But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things
which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;+13So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other
places;+14And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.+15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:+16The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:+17But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.+18What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.+19For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,+20According to my earnest expectation and
my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but
that with all boldness, as always,
so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether
it be by life, or by death.+
To Live Is Christ
21For to me to live
is Christ, and to die
is gain.+22But if I live in the flesh, this
is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.+23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:+24Nevertheless to abide in the flesh
is more needful for you.+25And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;+26That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.+
Worthy of the Gospel
27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;+28And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.+29For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;+30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear
to be
in me.+
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