⁵ because of your ^[a](A)fellowship in the ^(B)gospel ^(C)from the first day until now.

^7 [a]For ^(A)it is only right for me to think this way about you all, because I ^(B)have you in my heart, since both in my ^(C)chains and in the ^(D)defense and confirmation of the ^(E)gospel, you all are fellow partakers with me in this grace.

¹⁶ the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the ^(A)gospel;

²⁷ Only ^[a]live your lives in a manner ^(A)worthy of the ^(B)gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear about your circumstances, that you are ^(C)standing firm in ^(D)one spirit, with one ^[b]mind ^(E)contending together for the faith of the gospel,

²² But you know ^(A)of his proven worth, that ^(B)he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel ^(C)like a child serving his father.

³ Indeed, I ask you also, genuine companion, help these women who have contended together alongside of me in the gospel, with also Clement and the rest of my ^(A)fellow workers, whose ^(B)names are in the book of life.

¹⁵ And you yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the ^[a](A)first preaching of the gospel, after I left ^(B)Macedonia, no church ^(C)fellowshipped with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you alone.