Philippians 1:5–18

⁵for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.^{* 6}I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete^c it until the day of Jesus Christ. ⁷It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart,^d for all of you are my partners in God’s grace,^e both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.^{* 8}For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the tender affection of Christ Jesus.^{* 9}And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight^{* 10}to help you to determine what really matters, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, ¹¹having produced the harvest^f of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

Paul’s Present Circumstances

¹²I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in the progress of the gospel, ¹³so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard^g and to everyone else that my imprisonment is for Christ, ¹⁴and most of the brothers and sisters, having been made confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, dare to speak the word^h with greater boldness and without fear.

¹⁵Some proclaim Christ from envy and rivalry but others from goodwill. ¹⁶These proclaim Christ out of love, knowing that I have been put here for the defense of the gospel; ¹⁷the others proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but intending to increase my suffering in my imprisonment. ¹⁸What does it matter? Just this, that Christ is proclaimed in every way, whether out of false motives or true, and in that I rejoice.

Yes, and I will rejoice,