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Philippians 1:16

New Living Translation

They preach because they love me, for they know I have been appointed to defend the Good News.

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I could say the same things if you were in my place. I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.

“One should be kind to a fainting friend, but you accuse me without any fear of the Almighty.

To the one you have punished, they add insult to injury; they add to the pain of those you have hurt.

If I were doing this on my own initiative, I would deserve payment. But I have no choice, for God has given me this sacred trust.

You see, we are not like the many hucksters who preach for personal profit. We preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ’s authority, knowing that God is watching us.

For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return.

And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News.

for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it until now.

So it is right that I should feel as I do about all of you, for you have a special place in my heart. You share with me the special favor of God, both in my imprisonment and in defending and confirming the truth of the Good News.

But you know how Timothy has proved himself. Like a son with his father, he has served with me in preaching the Good News.

As you know, you Philippians were the only ones who gave me financial help when I first brought you the Good News and then traveled on from Macedonia. No other church did this.

And I ask you, my true partner, to help these two women, for they worked hard with me in telling others the Good News. They worked along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are written in the Book of Life.




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