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Produced by Martin Ward

Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Philippians

Third Edition 1913

R. F. Weymouth

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 rather than otherwise.

001:013 And thus it has become notorious among all the Imperial Guards, and everywhere, that it is for the sake of Christ that I am a prisoner;

001:014 and the greater part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord through my imprisonment, now speak of God's Message without fear, more boldly than ever.

001:015 Some indeed actually preach Christ out of envy and contentiousness but there are also others who do it from good will.

001:016 These latter preach Him from love to me, knowing that I am here for the defence of the Good News;

001:017 while the others proclaim Him from motives of rivalry, and insincerely, supposing that by this they are embittering my imprisonment.

001:018 What does it matter, however? In any case Christ is preached-- either perversely or in honest truth; and in that I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

001:019 For I know that it will result in my salvation through your prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

001:020 in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death.

001:021 For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

001:022 But since to live means a longer stay on earth, that implies more labour for me--and not unsuccessful labour; and which I am to choose I cannot tell.

001:023 I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better.