Philippians 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

⁷as 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.

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

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

¹⁰that 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,

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

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

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