Haweis - Philippians - 1

1:1  PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

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

1:3  I give thanks to my God on every remembrance of you,

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

1:5  for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day even until now;

1:6  being confident of this very thing, that he who hath wrought in you the good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

1:7  as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I bear you on my heart, both in my bonds and in my defence and the confirmation of the gospel, as being all of you sharers in my grace.

1:8  For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

1:9  And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding;

1:10  that ye may prove the things that are excellent, in order that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ;

1:11  filled with fruits of righteousness, which by Jesus Christ are to the glory and praise of God.

1:12  Now I wish you, brethren, to know, that the things which have befallen me have rather conduced to the progress of the gospel;

1:13  so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;

1:14  and very many of our brethren in the Lord, assuming confidence from my chains, are more abundantly bold, fearlessly to preach the word.

1:15  Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:

1:16  the one indeed preach Christ out of contention, not with purity of intention, thinking to add affliction to my bonds:

1:17  but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel.

1:18  What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

1:19  For I know that this shall issue in my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

1:20  according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.

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

1:22  But if it be his will, that I should live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my travail: and what to chuse I know not.

1:23  For I am in a strait between the two, having an earnest longing to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for this is far, far better:

1:24  but to abide in the flesh may be more necessary for you.

1:25  And being so persuaded, I know that I shall stay and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith;

1:26  that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus for me by my coming again unto you.

1:27  Only conduct yourselves worthily as 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 soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

1:28  and not dismayed on any occasion by your adversaries; which is indeed the proof of perdition to them, but of salvation to you, and that from God.

1:29  For this favour on the part of Christ is granted you, not only that ye should believe on him, but also that ye should suffer for his sake;

1:30  experiencing the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear to be in me.