Produced by Martin Ward
Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Philippians
Third Edition 1913
R. F. Weymouth
Book 50 Philippians
001:001 Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Christ Jesus: To all God's people in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the ministers of the Church and their assistants.
001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
001:003 I thank my God at my every remembrance of you—
001:004 always when offering any prayer on behalf of you all,
finding a joy in offering it.
001:005 I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading
the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.
001:006 For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.
001:007 And I am justified in having this confidence about you all, because, both during my imprisonment and when I stand up in defence of the Good News or to confirm its truth, I have you in my heart, sharers as you all are in the same grace as myself.
001:008 For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection.
001:009 And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing things that differ,
001:010 so that you may be men of transparent character, and may
be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,
001:011 being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come
through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.
001:012 Now I would have you know, brethren, that what I have gone
through has turned out to the furtherance of the Good News
rather than otherwise.
001:013 And thus it has become notorious among all the Imperial Guards,
and everywhere, that it is for the sake of Christ that I
am a prisoner;
001:014 and the greater part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord
through my imprisonment, now speak of God's Message without fear,
more boldly than ever.
001:015 Some indeed actually preach Christ out of envy and contentiousness
but there are also others who do it from good will.
001:016 These latter preach Him from love to me, knowing that I am
here for the defence of the Good News;
001:017 while the others proclaim Him from motives of rivalry,
and insincerely, supposing that by this they are
embittering my imprisonment.
001:018 What does it matter, however? In any case Christ is preached—
either perversely or in honest truth; and in that I rejoice,
yes, and will rejoice.
001:019 For I know that it will result in my salvation through your prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ