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1 Greetings from Paul and Timothy, servants of YAHUSHA Messiah. To all of you in Philippi who are Alahim’s Set-Apart people in Messiah YAHUSHA, including your elders and special servants. 2 favour and peace to you from Alahim our Father and the Master YAHUSHA Messiah.

3 I thank Alahim every time I remember you. 4 And I always pray for all of you with joy. 5 I thank Alahim for the help you gave me while I told people the Good News. You helped from the first day you believed until now. 6 I am sure that the good work Alahim began in you will continue until He completes it on the day when YAHUSHA MESSIAH comes again.

7 I know I am right to think like this about all of you because you are so close to my heart. This is because you have all played such an important part in Alahim’s favour to me, and even now, during this time that I am in prison, and whenever I am defending and proving the truth of the Good News. 8 Alahim knows that I want very much to see you. I love all of you with the love of MESSIAH YAHUSHA.

9 This is my prayer for you: that your love will grow more and more; that you will have knowledge and understanding with your love; 10 that you will see the difference between what is important and what is not and choose what is important; that you will be pure and blameless for the coming of Messiah; 11 that your life will be full of the many good fruits of behaviour that YAHUSHA MESSIAH produces to bring glorious-esteem and majestic-splendour and praise to Alahim.

12 Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that all that has happened to me has helped to spread the Good News. 13 All the Roman guards and all the others here know that I am in prison for serving Messiah. 14 Me being in prison has caused most of the believers to put their trust in the Master and to show more courage in telling people Alahim’s message.

15 Some people are speaking the message about YAHUSHA because they are jealous and bitter. Others do it because they want to help. 16 They are doing it out of love. They know that YAHUSHA gave me the work of defending the Good News. 17 But those others speak about Messiah because of their selfish ambition. Their reason for doing it is wrong. They only do it because they think it will make trouble for me in prison. 18 But that doesn’t matter. What is important is that they are telling people about Messiah, whether they are sincere or not. So I am glad they are doing it.

So I will continue to be glad, 19 because I know that your prayers and the help the Spirit of YAHUSHA MESSIAH gives me will cause this trouble to result in my freedom. 20 I am full of hope and feel sure I will not have any reason to be ashamed. I am certain I will continue to have the same boldness to speak freely that I always have. I will let Alahim use my life to bring more honour to Messiah. It doesn’t matter whether I live or die. 21 To me, the only important thing about living is YAHUSHA. And even death would be for my benefit. 22 If I continue living here on earth, I will be able to work for the Master. But what would I choose—to live or to die? I don’t know. 23 It would be a hard choice. Sometimes I want to leave this life and be with YAHUSHA. That would be much better for me; 24 however, you people need me here alive. 25 I am sure of this, so I know that I will stay here and be with you to help you grow and have joy in your trusting-belief. 26 When I am there with you again, you will be bursting with pride over what MESSIAH YAHUSHA did to help me.

27 Just be sure you live as Alahim’s people in a way that honours the Good News of YAHUSHA. Then, if I come and visit you or if I am away from you, I will hear good things about you. I will know that you stand together with the same purpose and that you work together like a team to help others believe the Good News. 28 And you will not be afraid of those who are against you. All of this is proof from Alahim that you are being delivered and that your enemies will be lost. 29 Alahim has blessed you in ways that serve Messiah. He allowed you to believe in YAHUSHA. But that is not all. He has also given you the honour of suffering for Messiah. Both of these bring glorious-esteem and majestic-splendour to YAHUSHA. 30 You saw the difficulties I had to face, and you hear that I am still having troubles. Now you must face them too.

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