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In this warm, well-written study of Philippians, readers will find an introduction that discusses the letter’s occasion and purpose, authorship, and other background information, as well as its important theological themes. Passage-by-passage commentary follows that seeks to explain what the letter means to us today as well as what it meant for its original hearers.

The Gospel Advances Both Inside and Outside Prison (1:12–14) Those who are fully alive because of the gospel, who in Paul’s language have nothing yet possess everything (2 Cor 6:10), exist as a constant threat to those whose minds are set on merely earthly things. Leave Paul alone and he and his companions will be those who have turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6); put him in prison and he turns Caesar’s elite upside down (Phil 1:13), not to mention Caesar’s very household (4:22). To paraphrase
Philippians 1:12–18a