빌립보서 1장 NASB
- 1 Paul and Timothy bond-servants of Christ Jesus To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi including the overseers and deacons:
- 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you
- 4 always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all
- 5 in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.
- 6 For I am confident of this very thing that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
- 7 For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all because I have you in my heart since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel you all are partakers of grace with me.
- 8 For God is my witness how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
- 9 And this I pray that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment
- 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;
- 11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
- 12 Now I want you to know brethren that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel
- 13 so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else
- 14 and that most of the brethren trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear.
- 15 Some to be sure are preaching Christ even from envy and strife but some also from good will;
- 16 the latter do it out of love knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;
- 17 the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.
- 18 What then? Only that in every way whether in pretense or in truth Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice. Yes and I will rejoice
- 19 for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ
- 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in anything but that with all boldness Christ will even now as always be exalted in my body whether by life or by death.
- 21 For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
- 22 But if I am to live on in the flesh this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose.
- 23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions having the desire to depart and be with Christ for that is very much better;
- 24 yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.
- 25 Convinced of this I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith
- 26 so that your proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.
- 27 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that whether I come and see you or remain absent I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
- 28 in no way alarmed by your opponents--which is a sign of destruction for them but of salvation for you and that too from God.
- 29 For to you it has been granted for Christ's sake not only to believe in Him but also to suffer for His sake
- 30 experiencing the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear to be in me.