Philippians 1
1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus being in Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
2 Grace to you⁺ and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you⁺,
4 always in my every supplication for all of you⁺, making the supplication with joy,
5 for your⁺ partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,
6 being persuaded of this very thing, that the One having begun a good work in you⁺ will complete [it] until the day of Christ Jesus.
7 Accordingly, it is right for me to think this about all of you⁺, because of me having you⁺ in the heart. Both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you⁺ all are fellow partakers of grace with me.
8 For God [is] my witness how I long for you⁺ all in the inner affections of Christ Jesus.
9 And this I pray, that your⁺ love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
10 for you⁺ to approve the things being excellent, so that you⁺ may be pure and blameless unto the day of Christ,
11 being filled with the fruit of righteousness that [is] through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
12 Now I want you⁺ to know brothers, that the things concerning me really have come to the advancement of the gospel,
13 so as for my chains in Christ to have become manifest in all the Praetorium and to all the rest;
14 and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord by my chains, dare more abundantly to speak fearlessly the word.
15 Indeed, some, even through envy and strife, but some also through goodwill, preach Christ—
16 the ones indeed out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;
17 but the [others] proclaim Christ out of self-interest, not purely, supposing to add tribulation to my chains.
18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,
19 for I know that this will turn out for me to deliverance, through your⁺ supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20 according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be ashamed in nothing, but in all boldness, as always, also now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death.
21 For to me, to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain.
22 But if [I am] to live in flesh, this for me [is] the fruit of work; and what will I choose? I do not know.
23 But I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, for [it is] very much better,
24 but to remain in the flesh [is] more necessary on account of you⁺.
25 And having been persuaded of this, I know that I will remain and will continue with all of you⁺ for your⁺ progress and joy of the faith,
26 so that through my coming to you⁺ again your⁺ boasting in me may abound in Christ Jesus.
27 Only conduct yourselves worthily of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you⁺, or being absent, I might hear the things concerning you⁺, that you⁺ stand firm in one spirit, contending together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
28 and not being frightened in [anything] by those opposing [you], which is a demonstration of destruction to them, but of salvation to you⁺—and this from God.
29 For it was granted to you⁺ on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on behalf of Him,
30 having the same struggle such as you⁺ saw in me and now hear of in me.