And this I pray, that your love may overflow still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

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,

so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the praetorian guard and to everyone else,

the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;

for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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.

Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

But you know of his proven character, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.

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,

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

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.

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;