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Philippians 1:7

New Century Version

And I know that I am right to think like this about all of you, because I have you in my heart. All of you share in God’s grace with me while I am in prison and while I am defending and proving the truth of the Good News.

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I know only that in every city the Holy Spirit tells me that troubles and even jail wait for me.

The commander went to Paul and arrested him. He told his soldiers to tie Paul with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done wrong.

Love patiently accepts all things. It always trusts, always hopes, and always endures.

I do all this because of the Good News and so I can share in its blessings.

You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.

I do not say this to blame you. I told you before that we love you so much we would live or die with you.

When we are in Christ Jesus, it is not important if we are circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of faith that works through love.

So I, Paul, am a prisoner of Christ Jesus for you who are not Jews.

I am in prison because I belong to the Lord. Therefore I urge you who have been chosen by God to live up to the life to which God called you.

I have been sent to preach this Good News, and I am doing that now, here in prison. Pray that when I preach the Good News I will speak without fear, as I should.

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

All the palace guards and everyone else knows that I am in prison because I am a believer in Christ.

Because I am in prison, most of the believers have become more bold in Christ and are not afraid to speak the word of God.

I thank God for the help you gave me while I preached the Good News—help you gave from the first day you believed until now.

You know the kind of person Timothy is. You know he has served with me in telling the Good News, as a son serves his father.

But it was good that you helped me when I needed it.

You Philippians remember when I first preached the Good News there. When I left Macedonia, you were the only church that gave me help.

And I ask you, my faithful friend, to help these women. They served with me in telling the Good News, together with Clement and others who worked with me, whose names are written in the book of life.

I, Paul, greet you and write this with my own hand. Remember me in prison. Grace be with you.

Also pray for us that God will give us an opportunity to tell people his message. Pray that we can preach the secret that God has made known about Christ. This is why I am in prison.

You are all people who belong to the light and to the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness.

So do not be ashamed to tell people about our Lord Jesus, and do not be ashamed of me, in prison for the Lord. But suffer with me for the Good News. God, who gives us the strength to do that,

and I am suffering because of it to the point of being bound with chains like a criminal. But God’s teaching is not in chains.

I wanted to keep him with me so that in your place he might help me while I am in prison for the Good News.

So all of you holy brothers and sisters, who were called by God, think about Jesus, who was sent to us and is the high priest of our faith.

But be happy that you are sharing in Christ’s sufferings so that you will be happy and full of joy when Christ comes again in glory.

Now I have something to say to the elders in your group. I also am an elder. I have seen Christ’s sufferings, and I will share in the glory that will be shown to us. I beg you to

I think it is right for me to help you remember as long as I am in this body.

We know we have left death and have come into life because we love each other. Whoever does not love is still dead.




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