1. Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons.
2. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. I give thanks to my God upon my every remembrance of you,
4. always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy,
5. because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now,
6. convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Christ Jesus,
7. just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me.
8. For God is my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
9. And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
10. so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,
11. having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
12. Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have happened instead for the progress of the gospel,
13. so that my imprisonment in Christ has become known in the whole praetorium and to all the rest,
14. and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, dare even more to speak the word without fear.
15. Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will.
16. The latter do so from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.