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Philippians 1

New Century Version NCV

1 From Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus. To all of God's holy people in Christ Jesus who live in Philippi, including your elders and deacons:

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

3 I thank my God every time I remember you,

4 always praying with joy for all of you.

5 I thank God for the help you gave me while I preached the Good News -- help you gave from the first day you believed until now.

6 God began doing a good work in you, and I am sure he will continue it until it is finished when Jesus Christ comes again.

7 And I know that I am right to think like this about all of you, because I have you in my heart. All of you share in God's grace with me while I am in prison and while I am defending and proving the truth of the Good News.

8 God knows that I want to see you very much, because I love all of you with the love of Christ Jesus.

9 This is my prayer for you: that your love will grow more and more; that you will have knowledge and understanding with your love;

10 that you will see the difference between good and bad and will choose the good; that you will be pure and without wrong for the coming of Christ;

11 that you will do many good things with the help of Christ to bring glory and praise to God.

12 I want you brothers and sistersn to know that what has happened to me has helped to spread the Good News.

13 All the palace guards and everyone else knows that I am in prison because I am a believer in Christ.

14 Because I am in prison, most of the believers have become more bold in Christ and are not afraid to speak the word of God.

15 It is true that some preach about Christ because they are jealous and ambitious, but others preach about Christ because they want to help.

16 They preach because they have love, and they know that God gave me the work of defending the Good News.

17 But the others preach about Christ for selfish and wrong reasons, wanting to make trouble for me in prison.

18 But it doesn't matter. The important thing is that in every way, whether for right or wrong reasons, they are preaching about Christ. So I am happy, and I will continue to be happy.

19 Because you are praying for me and the Spirit of Jesus Christ is helping me, I know this trouble will bring my freedom.

20 I expect and hope that I will not fail Christ in anything but that I will have the courage now, as always, to show the greatness of Christ in my life here on earth, whether I live or die.

21 To me the only important thing about living is Christ, and dying would be profit for me.

22 If I continue living in my body, I will be able to work for the Lord. I do not know what to choose -- living or dying.

23 It is hard to choose between the two. I want to leave this life and be with Christ, which is much better,

24 but you need me here in my body.

25 Since I am sure of this, I know I will stay with you to help you grow and have joy in your faith.

26 You will be very happy in Christ Jesus when I am with you again.

27 Only one thing concerns me: Be sure that you live in a way that brings honor to the Good News of Christ. Then whether I come and visit you or am away from you, I will hear that you are standing strong with one purpose, that you work together as one for the faith of the Good News,

28 and that you are not afraid of those who are against you. All of this is proof that your enemies will be destroyed but that you will be saved by God.

29 God gave you the honor not only of believing in Christ but also of suffering for him, both of which bring glory to Christ.

30 When I was with you, you saw the struggles I had, and you hear about the struggles I am having now. You yourselves are having the same kind of struggles.

The Darby Translation DBY

1 Paul and Timotheus, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with [the] overseers and ministers;

2 grace to you, and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

3 I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,

4 constantly in my every supplication, making the supplication for you all with joy,

5 because of your fellowship with the gospel, from the first day until now;

6 having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

7 as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have *me* in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in [the] bowels of Christ Jesus.

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

10 that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

11 being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which [is] by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.

12 But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,

13 so that my bonds have become manifest [as being] in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;

14 and that the most of the brethren, trusting in [the] Lord through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God fearlessly.

15 Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.

16 These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the glad tidings;

17 but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.

18 What is it then? at any rate, in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, yea, also I will rejoice;

19 for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation, through your supplication and [the] supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death.

21 For for me to live [is] Christ, and to die gain;

22 but if to live in flesh [is my lot], this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.

23 But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, [for] [it is] very much better,

24 but remaining in the flesh [is] more necessary for your sakes;

25 and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in faith;

26 that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus through me by my presence again with you.

27 Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

28 and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

29 because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

30 having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.