Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons.
2Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4always in every prayer of mine making my request for you all with joy
5for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ,
7even as it is righteous 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, you are all partakers of my grace.
8For God is my witness how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and in all perception;
10that you may distinguish between things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ,
11being filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
12But I desire that you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel;
13so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places.
14And most of the brothers in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
15Some indeed even preach Christ because of envy and strife, and some also of good will.
16Those, indeed, preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds.
17But these others preach in love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.
18What then? Nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached. And I rejoice in this. Yet, also I will rejoice.
19For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.
21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet I do not know what I shall choose.
23For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.
24But to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.
25And having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of faith,
26so that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
27Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
28and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
29For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
30having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.