Some indeed actually preach Christ out of envy and contentiousness but there are also others who do it from good will.

For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ--not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf;

each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.

It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

And I bid you also share my gladness, and congratulate me.

but trusting, as I do, in the Lord, I believe that I shall myself also come to you before long.

For it is true that he has been ill, and was apparently at the point of death; but God had pity on him, and not only on him, but also on me, to save me from having sorrow upon sorrow.

I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

Therefore let all of us who are mature believers cherish these thoughts; and if in any respect you think differently, that also God will make clear to you.

Yes, and I beg you also, my faithful yoke-fellow, to help these women who have shared my toil in connection with the Good News, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are recorded in the Book of Life.

And you men and women of Philippi also know that at the first preaching of the Good News, when I had left Macedonia, no other Church except yourselves held communication with me about giving and receiving;