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And this I pray, that your love may overflow still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
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The Gospel Is Preached
Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel,
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so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the praetorian guard and to everyone else,
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the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;
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for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
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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.
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Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
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But you know of his proven character, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.
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More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ,
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that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
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Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near.
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Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
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I know how to get along with little, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.
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You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone;