in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.

For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me.

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,

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

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

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

Indeed, true companion, I ask you also, help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement as well as the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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;