1 P aul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

2 g race 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 a lways in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

5 f or your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

6 b eing confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

7 e ven as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

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

9 A nd this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

10 t hat ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

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

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

13 s o that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

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

15 S ome indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

16 t he one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

17 b ut the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

18 W hat then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

19 F or I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

20 a ccording 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 F or to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

22 B ut if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

23 F or I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

24 n evertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

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

26 t hat your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

27 O nly let your conversation be as it becometh 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, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

28 a nd in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

29 F or unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

30 h aving the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.