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

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

The Gospel Is Preached

¹² Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my circumstances ^(A)have turned out for the greater progress of the ^(B)gospel,

²⁷ Only conduct yourselves 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 you that you are ^(C)standing firm in ^(D)one spirit, with one ^[a]mind ^(E)striving together for the faith of the gospel;

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

³ Indeed, true ^[a]companion, I ask you also, help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement as well as the rest of my ^(A)fellow workers, whose ^(B)names are in the book of life.

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