Philippians 1:5

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Philippians 1:5

For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

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And, indeed, I am justified in feeling thus about you all; because you have a warm place in my heart--you who all, both in my imprisonment and in the work of defending and establishing the Good News, shared my privilege with me.

Yet you have acted nobly in sharing my troubles.

And, when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us to become her guests. "Since you have shown your conviction," she said, "that I really am a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house." And she insisted on our doing so.

Some, however, of the branches were broken off, and you, who were only a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and came to share with them the root which is the source of the richness of the cultivated olive.

Relieving the wants of Christ's People; devoted to hospitality.

For Macedonia and Greece have been glad to make a collection for the poor among Christ's People at Jerusalem.

God will not fail you, and it is he who called you into communion with his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

We would remind you, Brothers, of the love that God has shown to the Churches in Macedonia--

It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and aliens, but are fellow-citizens with Christ's People and members of God's Household.

That, by union with Christ Jesus and through the Good News, the Gentiles are co-heirs with us and members of one Body, and that they share with us in God's Promise.

And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness--

If, then, you count me your friend, receive him as you would me.

For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.

To those to whom, through the justice of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, there has been granted faith equally privileged with our own, from Simon Peter, a servant and an Apostle of Jesus Christ.

It is of what we have seen and heard that we now tell you, so that you may have communion with us. And our communion is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.