Philippians 1:8-18

8 God is my witness that I tell the truth when I say that my deep feeling for you all comes from the heart of Christ Jesus himself.
9 I pray that your love will keep on growing more and more, together with true knowledge and perfect judgment,
10 so that you will be able to choose what is best. Then you will be free from all impurity and blame on the Day of Christ.
11 Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.
12 I want you to know, my friends, that the things that have happened to me have really helped the progress of the gospel.
13 As a result, the whole palace guard and all the others here know that I am in prison because I am a servant of Christ. 1
14 And my being in prison has given most of the believers more confidence in the Lord, so that they grow bolder all the time to preach the message [a] fearlessly.
15 Of course some of them preach Christ because they are jealous and quarrelsome, but others from genuine good will.
16 These do so from love, because they know that God has given me the work of defending the gospel.
17 The others do not proclaim Christ sincerely, but from a spirit of selfish ambition; they think that they will make more trouble for me while I am in prison.
18 It does not matter! I am happy about it - just so Christ is preached in every way possible, whether from wrong or right motives. And I will continue to be happy,

Cross References 1

  • 1. 1.13Acts 28.30.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. the message; [some manuscripts have] God's message.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.