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Philippians 1:30

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You saw the difficulties I had to face, and you hear that I am still having troubles. Now you must face them too.

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Before we came to you, people in Philippi abused us with insults and made us suffer. You know all about that. And then, when we came to you, many people there caused trouble for us. But our God gave us the courage we needed to tell you his Good News.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have served the Lord faithfully.

You are struggling against sin, but you have not had to give up your life for the cause.

“I have told you these things so that you can have peace in me. In this world you will have troubles. But be brave! I have defeated the world!”

They defeated him by the blood sacrifice of the Lamb and by the message of God that they told people. They did not love their lives too much. They were not afraid of death.

We have to fight to keep our faith. Try as hard as you can to win that fight. Take hold of eternal life. It is the life you were chosen to have when you confessed your faith in Jesus—that wonderful truth that you spoke so openly and that so many people heard.

To do this, I work and struggle using the great strength that Christ gives me. That strength is working in my life.

All the Roman guards and all the others here know that I am in prison for serving Christ.

I want you to know that I am trying very hard to help you. And I am trying to help those in Laodicea and others who have never seen me.

We have all these great people around us as examples. Their lives tell us what faith means. So we, too, should run the race that is before us and never quit. We should remove from our lives anything that would slow us down and the sin that so often makes us fall.




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