Philippians 1:1-13 ▼

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

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

3 I return thanks to my God for all your remembrance,

4 Always in all my prayer for you all with joy making prayer,

5 For your mutual participation in the good news from the first day until now;

6 Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

7 As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me.

8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

9 And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence;

10 For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;

11 Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

12 And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news;

13 So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest;