Philippians 1:13

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

All the saints greet you.

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;