⁵because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now, ⁶convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it^* until the day of Christ Jesus, ⁷just 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. ⁸For God is my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Prayer for Spiritual Maturity

⁹And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, ¹⁰so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in^b the day of Christ, ¹¹having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

The Progress of the Gospel

¹²Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances^c have happened instead for the progress of the gospel, ¹³so that my imprisonment in Christ has become known in the whole praetorium^d and to all the rest, ¹⁴and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, dare even more to speak the word without fear. ¹⁵Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will. ¹⁶The latter do so from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. ¹⁷The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction in my imprisonment. ¹⁸What is the result?^e Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But also I will rejoice,

Read in Logos

Philippians 1:6: And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Footnotes

*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “since” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal
bOr “for,” or “until”
cLiterally “the things with me”
dOr “praetorian guard,” or “imperial guard”
eLiterally “for what”