Book 50 Philippians
001:001 Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Christ Jesus: To all God's
people in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the ministers
of the Church and their assistants.
001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
001:003 I thank my God at my every remembrance of you--
001:004 always when offering any prayer on behalf of you all,
finding a joy in offering it.
001:005 I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading
the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.
001:006 For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work
within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day
of Jesus Christ.
001:007 And I am justified in having this confidence about you all,
because, both during my imprisonment and when I stand
up in defence of the Good News or to confirm its truth,
I have you in my heart, sharers as you all are in the same
grace as myself.
001:008 For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with
tender Christian affection.
001:009 And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more
accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing
things that differ,
001:010 so that you may be men of transparent character, and may
be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,
001:011 being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come
through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God.
001:012 Now I would have you know, brethren, that what I have gone
through has turned out to the furtherance of the Good News