Common - Philippians - 1

1:1  Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:

1:2  grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3  I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

1:4  always making my prayer with joy in every prayer of mine for you all,

1:5  because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

1:6  For I am confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

1:7  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.

1:8  For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

1:9  And this is my prayer, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

1:10  so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ;

1:11  having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

1:12  Now I want you to know, brethren, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,

1:13  so that my imprisonment for Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,

1:14  and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have been encouraged to speak the word of God without fear.

1:15  Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.

1:16  The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel;

1:17  the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, but thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.

1:18  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,

1:19  for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,

1:20  as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be ashamed in anything, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

1:21  For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

1:22  But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I do not know.

1:23  I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better;

1:24  but to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

1:25  Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

1:26  so that your proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.

1:27  Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

1:28  in no way frightened by your opponents. This is a sign of destruction to them, but of salvation for you—and that too, from God.

1:29  For to you it has been granted for the sake of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake,

1:30  having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.