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Philippians 1:12

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

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And because I tell that message, I am suffering. I am even bound with chains like someone who has really done wrong. But God’s message is not bound.

We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. These are the people God chose, because that was his plan.

But in all these troubles we have complete victory through God, who has shown his love for us.

They were scattered everywhere, and in every place they went, they told people the Good News.

Even human anger can bring you honor when you use it to punish your enemies.

On the 13th day of the twelfth month (Adar), the people were supposed to obey the king’s command. This was the day the enemies of the Jews hoped to defeat them, but now things had changed. The Jews were stronger than their enemies who hated them.

Now I know the Lord is greater than all the gods. They thought they were in control, but look what God did!”

But this will give you an opportunity to tell about me.

I thank God for the help you gave me while I told people the Good News. You helped from the first day you believed until now.

I know I am right to think like this about all of you because you are so close to my heart. This is because you have all played such an important part in God’s grace to me—now, during this time that I am in prison, and whenever I am defending and proving the truth of the Good News.

You know the kind of person Timothy is. He has served with me in telling the Good News like a son with his father.

For this I make a special request to my friend who has served with me so faithfully: Help these women. They worked hard with me in telling people the Good News, together with Clement and others who worked with me. Their names are written in the book of life.

You people in Philippi remember when I first told the Good News there. When I left Macedonia, you were the only church that gave me help.

I want the men everywhere to pray. Men who lift their hands in prayer must be devoted to God and pleasing to him. They must be men who keep themselves from getting angry and having arguments.

But the Lord stayed with me. The Lord gave me strength so that I could tell the Good News everywhere. He wanted all those who are not Jews to hear that Good News. So I was saved from the lion’s mouth.




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