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Philippians 1:7

Weymouth NT

And I am justified in having this confidence about you all, because, both during my imprisonment and when I stand up in defence of the Good News or to confirm its truth, I have you in my heart, sharers as you all are in the same grace as myself.

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except that the Holy Spirit, at town after town, testifies to me that imprisonment and suffering are awaiting me.«

Then the Tribune, making his way to him, arrested him, and, having ordered him to be secured with two chains, proceeded to ask who he was and what he had been doing.

She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.

And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.

Our letter of recommendation is yourselves–a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read.

I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love.

For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles–

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received–

to spread which I am an ambassador in chains–so that when telling them I may speak out boldly as I ought.

Now I would have you know, brethren, that what I have gone through has turned out to the furtherance of the Good News rather than otherwise.

And thus it has become notorious among all the Imperial Guards, and everywhere, that it is for the sake of Christ that I am a prisoner;

and the greater part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord through my imprisonment, now speak of God's Message without fear, more boldly than ever.

I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.

But you know Timothy's approved worth–how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Yet I thank you for taking your share in my troubles.

And you men and women of Philippi also know that at the first preaching of the Good News, when I had left Macedonia, no other Church except yourselves held communication with me about giving and receiving;

Yes, and I beg you also, my faithful yoke-fellow, to help these women who have shared my toil in connection with the Good News, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are recorded in the Book of Life.

I Paul add with my own hand this final greeting. Be mindful of me in my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

And pray at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door for preaching, for us to tell the truth concerning Christ for the sake of which I am even a prisoner.

for all of you are sons of Light and sons of the day. We belong neither to the night nor to darkness.

Do not be ashamed then to bear witness for our Lord and for me His prisoner; but rather share suffering with me in the service of the Good News, strengthened by the power of God.

For preaching the Good News I suffer, and am even put in chains, as if I were a criminal: yet the word of God is not imprisoned.

It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment for the Good News.

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

On the contrary, in the degree that you share in the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice, so that at the unveiling of His glory you may also rejoice with triumphant gladness.

So I exhort the Elders among you–I who am their fellow Elder and have been an eye-witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and am also a sharer in the glory which is soon to be revealed.

But I think it right, so long as I remain in the body, my present dwelling-place, to arouse you by such reminders.

As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life–because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.




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