{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "philippians", "chapter": 1 }, "data": { "n": 1, "bookSlug": "philippians", "bookCode": "PHP", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "PHP-1:1", "verseRef": "PHP.1.1", "text": "Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "PHP-1:2", "verseRef": "PHP.1.2", "text": "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "PHP-1:3", "verseRef": "PHP.1.3", "text": "I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you," },{ "n": 4, "refId": "PHP-1:4", "verseRef": "PHP.1.4", "text": "always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy," },{ "n": 5, "refId": "PHP-1:5", "verseRef": "PHP.1.5", "text": "for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "PHP-1:6", "verseRef": "PHP.1.6", "text": "being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "PHP-1:7", "verseRef": "PHP.1.7", "text": "even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "PHP-1:8", "verseRef": "PHP.1.8", "text": "For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "PHP-1:9", "verseRef": "PHP.1.9", "text": "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "PHP-1:10", "verseRef": "PHP.1.10", "text": "so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "PHP-1:11", "verseRef": "PHP.1.11", "text": "being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "PHP-1:12", "verseRef": "PHP.1.12", "text": "Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "PHP-1:13", "verseRef": "PHP.1.13", "text": "so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "PHP-1:14", "verseRef": "PHP.1.14", "text": "and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "PHP-1:15", "verseRef": "PHP.1.15", "text": "Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "PHP-1:16", "verseRef": "PHP.1.16", "text": "the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "PHP-1:17", "verseRef": "PHP.1.17", "text": "but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "PHP-1:18", "verseRef": "PHP.1.18", "text": "What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "PHP-1:19", "verseRef": "PHP.1.19", "text": "For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ," },{ "n": 20, "refId": "PHP-1:20", "verseRef": "PHP.1.20", "text": "according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "PHP-1:21", "verseRef": "PHP.1.21", "text": "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "PHP-1:22", "verseRef": "PHP.1.22", "text": "But if to live in the flesh, --[if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "PHP-1:23", "verseRef": "PHP.1.23", "text": "But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "PHP-1:24", "verseRef": "PHP.1.24", "text": "yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "PHP-1:25", "verseRef": "PHP.1.25", "text": "And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "PHP-1:26", "verseRef": "PHP.1.26", "text": "that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "PHP-1:27", "verseRef": "PHP.1.27", "text": "Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "PHP-1:28", "verseRef": "PHP.1.28", "text": "and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "PHP-1:29", "verseRef": "PHP.1.29", "text": "because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:" },{ "n": 30, "refId": "PHP-1:30", "verseRef": "PHP.1.30", "text": "having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/philippians/chapters/1", "book": "/v1/library/books/philippians/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/philippians/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }