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

while the others proclaim Him from motives of rivalry, and insincerely, supposing that by this they are embittering my imprisonment.

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

Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.

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,

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;