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Philippians 1:7

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You have a special place in my heart. So it’s right for me to think this way about all of you. All of you are my partners. Together we share God’s favor, whether I’m in prison or defending and confirming the truth of the Good News.

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However, the Holy Spirit warns me in every city that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.

Then the officer went to Paul, grabbed him, and ordered him to be tied up with two chains. The officer asked who Paul was and what he had done.

Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, never gives up.

I do all this for the sake of the Good News in order to share what it offers.

You’re our letter of recommendation written in our hearts that everyone knows and reads.

I’m not saying this to condemn you. I’ve already told you that you are in our hearts so that we will live and die together.

As far as our relationship to Christ Jesus is concerned, it doesn’t matter whether we are circumcised or not. But what matters is a faith that expresses itself through love.

This is the reason I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus  for those of you who are not Jewish.

I, a prisoner in the Lord, encourage you to live the kind of life which proves that God has called you.

Because I have already been doing this as Christ’s representative, I am in prison. So pray that I speak about this Good News as boldly as I have to.

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what happened to me has helped to spread the Good News.

As a result, it has become clear to all the soldiers who guard the emperor and to everyone else that I am in prison because of Christ.

So through my being in prison, the Lord has given most of our brothers and sisters confidence to speak God’s word more boldly and fearlessly than ever.

I can do this because of the partnership we’ve had with you in the Good News from the first day ⌞you believed⌟ until now.

But you know what kind of person Timothy proved to be. Like a father and son we worked hard together to spread the Good News.

Nevertheless, it was kind of you to share my troubles.

You Philippians also know that in the early days, when I left the province of Macedonia to spread the Good News, you were the only church to share your money with me. You gave me what I needed, and you received what I gave you.

Yes, I also ask you, Syzugus, my true partner, to help these women. They fought beside me to spread the Good News along with Clement and the rest of my coworkers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

I, Paul, am writing this greeting with my own hand. Remember that I’m a prisoner. God’s good will  be with you.

At the same time also pray for us. Pray that God will give us an opportunity to speak the word so that we may tell the mystery about Christ. It is because of this mystery that I am a prisoner.

You belong to the day and the light not to the night and the dark.

So never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord or be ashamed of me, his prisoner. Instead, by God’s power, join me in suffering for the sake of the Good News.

I’m suffering disgrace for spreading this Good News. I have even been put into prison like a criminal. However, God’s word is not imprisoned.

I wanted to keep him here with me. Then he could have served me in your place while I am in prison for spreading the Good News.

Brothers and sisters, you are holy partners in a heavenly calling. So look carefully at Jesus, the apostle and chief priest about whom we make our declaration of faith.

but be happy as you share Christ’s sufferings. Then you will also be full of joy when he appears again in his glory.

I appeal to your spiritual leaders. I make this appeal as a spiritual leader who also witnessed Christ’s sufferings and will share in the glory that will be revealed.

As long as I’m still alive, I think it’s right to refresh your memory.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love other believers. The person who doesn’t grow in love remains in death.




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