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Philippians 1:15

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Some people are telling the message about Christ because they are jealous and bitter. Others do it because they want to help.

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In whatever you do, don’t let selfishness or pride be your guide. Be humble, and honor others more than yourselves.

They are false apostles, lying workers. They only pretend to be apostles of Christ.

We don’t tell people about ourselves. But we tell people that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we tell them that we are your servants for Jesus.

The Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one that Silas, Timothy, and I told you about was not yes and no. In Christ it has always been yes.

“The only reason they do what they do is for other people to see them. They make the little Scripture boxes they wear bigger and bigger. And they make the tassels on their prayer clothes long enough for people to notice them.

Without a doubt, the secret of our life of worship is great: Christ was shown to us in human form; the Spirit proved that he was right; he was seen by angels. The message about him was told to the nations; people in the world believed in him; he was taken up to heaven in glory.

We needed to talk about these problems, because some who pretended to be our brothers had come into our group secretly. They came in like spies to find out about the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. They wanted to make us slaves,

I do this because I am afraid that when I come, you will not be what I want you to be. And I am afraid that I will not be what you want me to be. I am afraid that I will find arguing, jealousy, anger, selfish fighting, evil talk, gossip, pride, and confusion there.

I may give away everything I have to help others, and I may even give my body as an offering to be burned. But I gain nothing by doing all this if I don’t have love.

But this is the message we tell everyone: Christ was killed on a cross. This message is a problem for Jews, and to other people it is nonsense.

Some of these believers were men from Cyprus and Cyrene. When these men came to Antioch, they began speaking to people who were not Jews. They told them the Good News about the Lord Jesus.

God has spoken to the people of Israel. He sent them the Good News that peace has come through Jesus Christ, the Lord of all people.

Soon he began to go to the synagogues and tell people about Jesus. He told the people, “Jesus is the Son of God!”

Philip began to speak. He started with this same Scripture and told the man the Good News about Jesus.

The apostles did not stop teaching the people. They continued to tell the Good News—that Jesus is the Messiah. They did this every day in the Temple area and in people’s homes.

Philip went to the city of Samaria and told people about the Messiah.

But others are selfish and refuse to follow truth. They follow evil. God will show his anger and punish them.




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