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Philippians 1:5

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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.

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We have the honor of sharing in all that Christ has if we continue until the end to have the sure faith we had in the beginning.

If you accept me as your friend, then accept Onesimus back. Welcome him like you would welcome me.

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.

We are telling you about what we have seen and heard because we want you to have fellowship with us. The fellowship we share together is with God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.

And this is the secret truth: that by hearing the Good News, those who are not Jews will share with the Jews in the blessings God has for his people. They are part of the same body, and they share in the promise God made through Christ Jesus.

And now, brothers and sisters, we want to tell you what God’s grace has done in the churches in Macedonia.

Some of them are poor, and the believers in Macedonia and Achaia wanted to help them. So they gathered some money to send them.

We should live in the light, where God is. If we live in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood sacrifice of Jesus, God’s Son, washes away every sin and makes us clean.

Greetings from Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To all of you who share in the same valuable faith that we have. This faith was given to us because our God and Savior Jesus Christ always does what is good and right.

My dear friends, you always obeyed what you were taught. Just as you obeyed when I was with you, it is even more important for you to obey now that I am not there. So you must continue to live in a way that gives meaning to your salvation. Do this with fear and respect for God.

God is faithful. He is the one who has chosen you to share life with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

It is as if some of the branches from an olive tree have been broken off, and the branch of a wild olive tree has been joined to that first tree. If you are not a Jew, you are the same as that wild branch, and you now share the strength and life of the first tree.

The believers spent their time listening to the teaching of the apostles. They shared everything with each other. They ate together and prayed together.

Share with God’s people who need help. Look for people who need help and welcome them into your homes.

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

They are doing it out of love. They know that God gave me the work of defending the Good News.

Just be sure you live as God’s people in a way that honors the Good News of Christ. Then if I come and visit you or if I am away from you, I will hear good things about you. I will know that you stand together with the same purpose and that you work together like a team to help others believe 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.




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