Jubilee2000 - Philippians - 1

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

1:2  Grace [be] unto you and peace from God our Father and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3  I thank my God upon 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 until now,

1:6  being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perfect [it] until the day of Jesus Christ

1:7  Even as it is right for me to think this 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, ye all are joint partakers of my grace.

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

1:9  And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all perception,

1:10  that ye may approve the best, that ye may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ,

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

1:12  But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel,

1:13  so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other [places];

1:14  and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

1:15  Some indeed preach the Christ even [out] of envy and strife, but others also [out] of good will.

1:16  Some preach the Christ [out] of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add tribulation to my bonds,

1:17  but the others [out] of charity, knowing that I am placed [here] for the defense of the gospel.

1:18  What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, and will even rejoice.

1:19  For I know that this shall become my saving health through your prayer and the nourishment of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

1:20  according 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.

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

1:22  But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour, yet I do not know what to choose.

1:23  For I am in a strait between [the] two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better:

1:24  nevertheless, to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you.

1:25  And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith,

1:26  that your glorying in Jesus Christ may be more abundant by my coming to you again.

1:27  Only let your conversation be as is worthy of 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, unanimous, working together for the faith of the gospel,

1:28  and in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of saving health and that of God.

1:29  For unto you it is granted regarding Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,

1:30  having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear [to be] in me.: