Philippians 1:7-18
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7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
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8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
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9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
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10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
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11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
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12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
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13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
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14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
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15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
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16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
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17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
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18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.