Philippians 1
1:1Paul and Timothy, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the holy ones in Christ Jesus, to the ones being in Philippi, with the overseers and servants.
1:2Favor to you and peace from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3I give thanks to my God for the memory of you all,
1:4at all times in every supplication of mine for all of you, making supplication with joy,
1:5for your fellowship in the good news from the first day until the present;
1:6being persuaded in this same thing, that the one commencing in you a good work, will complete it as far as the day of Jesus Christ;
1:7as is just for me to think this as to you all, because of you having me in your heart, both in my bonds, and in the defense and security of the good news, you all being fellow-partakers of my favor.
1:8For God is my witness, how I long after you all in feelings of compassion of Jesus Christ.
1:9And this I pray, that the love of yours still more and more should abound in full knowledge, and in all perception,
1:10for you to approve the things differing, that you might be honest and without cause to stumble in the day of Christ,
1:11being filled with fruits of righteousness, of the ones by Jesus Christ, to glory and praise of God.
1:12But I want you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me rather in progression of the good news have come,
1:13so as my bonds to become apparent in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to all the rest;
1:14and the more of the brethren relying in the Lord, dare more exceedingly in my bonds to speak the word fearlessly.
1:15Some indeed also through envy and strife; but some also through good-pleasure proclaim the Christ.
1:16The ones indeed from out of contention announce the Christ, not purely, imagining to add affliction to my bonds.
1:17But the ones from out of love, knowing that for a defense of the good news I am situated.
1:18For what? Only in every manner, whether an excuse, whether truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, but, also I will rejoice.
1:19For I know that this to me shall result in deliverance through your supplication, and the supplying of the spirit of Jesus Christ;
1:20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in every open manner, as at all times, and now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life, whether through death.
1:21For to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
1:22But if to live in flesh, this to me is fruit of work; and what I shall take up I know not.
1:23But I am constrained by the two, having the desire for disengaging, and to be with Christ is rather much better;
1:24but to remain in the flesh is more important for you.
1:25And this being persuaded of, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all in your progression and joy of the belief;
1:26that your boasting should abound in Christ Jesus in me through my arrival again with you.
1:27Only conduct yourselves in public worthily of the good news of the Christ! that whether having come and having seen you, or whether being absent, I should hear the things concerning you, that you stand firmly in one spirit, one soul, fighting together in the belief of the good news;
1:28and not being terrified in anything by the ones being an adversary, which to them indeed is a demonstration of destruction, but to you deliverance -- and this from God.
1:29For to you it was granted concerning Christ, not only the trusting in him, but also the suffering for him,
1:30having the same struggle as you saw in me, and now hear of by me.