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title: Philippians 1
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createdAt: 2024-09-15T02:34:30.132Z
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**1 **Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: **2 **Grace *be* unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and *from* the Lord Jesus Christ.

**3 **I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, **4 **Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, **5 **For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; **6 **Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform *it* until the day of Jesus Christ: **7 **Even 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. **8 **For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. **9 **And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and *in* all judgment; **10 **That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; **11 **Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

**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; **13 **So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other *places*; **14 **And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. **15 **Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: **16 **The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: **17 **But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. **18 **What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. **19 **For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, **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.

**21 **For to me to live *is* Christ, and to die *is* gain. **22 **But if I live in the flesh, this *is* the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. **23 **For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: **24 **Nevertheless to abide in the flesh *is* more needful for you. **25 **And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; **26 **That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

**27 **Only 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; **28 **And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. **29 **For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; **30 **Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear *to be* in me.