Philippians 1 - Jubilee Bible

¹ ¶ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

² Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ ¶ I thank my God upon every remembrance of you

⁴ always in every prayer of mine for you all, making request with joy,

⁵ for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,

⁶ being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.

⁷ ¶ Even as it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint partakers of my grace.

⁸ For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

⁹ ¶ And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,

¹⁰ that ye may approve the best, that ye may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ,

¹¹ being filled with fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

¹² ¶ But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel,

¹³ so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places;

¹⁴ and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

¹⁵ Some indeed preach the Christ even out of envy and strife, but others also out of good will.

¹⁶ Some preach the Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add tribulation to my bonds,

¹⁷ but the others out of charity, knowing that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.

¹⁸ What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, and will even rejoice.

¹⁹ For I know that this shall become my saving health through your prayer and the nourishment of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

²¹ ¶ For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

²² But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour, yet I do not know what to choose.

²³ For I am in a strait between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better:

²⁴ nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

²⁵ And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith,

²⁶ that your glorying in Jesus Christ may be more abundant by my coming to you again.

²⁷ ¶ Only let your conversation be as is worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, unanimous, working together for the faith of the gospel,

²⁸ and in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of saving health and that of God.

²⁹ For unto you it is granted regarding Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,

³⁰ having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear to be in me.