Philippians 1:1-13 ▼

1 Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy ones in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and servants:

2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

3 I give thanks to my God on all the remembrance of you,

4 always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,

5 for your contribution to the good news from the first day until now,

6 having been confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you, will complete [it] until [the] day of Jesus Christ,

7 according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and [in] the defense and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all with [the] yearnings of Jesus Christ,

9 and this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge, and all discernment,

10 for your proving the things that differ, that you may be pure and offenseless—to [the] Day of Christ,

11 being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that [is] through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

12 And I intend you to know, brothers, that the things concerning me, rather have come to an advancement of the good news,

13 so that my bonds have become evident in Christ in the whole Praetorium, and to all the other places,