Philippians 1:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

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Referenced Verses

  • Phil 1:7 : 7 So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.
  • Phil 1:10 : 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;
  • Phil 1:12 : 12 Now it is my purpose to make clear to you, brothers, that the cause of the good news has been helped by my experiences;
  • Job 6:14 : 14 He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.
  • Job 16:4 : 4 It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong: 2 And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

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  • Phil 1:11-15
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    89%

    11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

    12 Now it is my purpose to make clear to you, brothers, that the cause of the good news has been helped by my experiences;

    13 So that it became clear through all the Praetorium, and to all the rest, that I was a prisoner on account of Christ;

    14 And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.

    15 Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:

  • Phil 1:17-18
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    89%

    17 But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

    18 What then? only that in every way, falsely or truly, the preaching of Christ goes on; and in this I am glad, and will be glad.

  • Gal 1:6-7
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    6 I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

    7 Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

  • Phil 1:30
    74%

    30 Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

  • Rom 15:20
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    20 Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17 For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    73%

    10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

    11 Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

  • 1 Cor 1:11-12
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    11 Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

    12 That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.

  • 2 Cor 11:10-12
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    10 As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

    11 Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

    12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

  • Gal 6:12
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    12 Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

  • Gal 4:17
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    17 Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18 What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

  • Phil 2:21
    72%

    21 For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.

  • Rom 16:17-18
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    17 Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

    18 For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

  • Phil 1:27-28
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    27 Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

    28 Having no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

  • Col 1:24
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    24 Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

  • Eph 6:19-20
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    19 And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,

    20 For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4 And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:9
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    9 In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.

  • 1 Cor 9:16
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    16 For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16 So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.

  • 1 Thess 2:2
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    2 But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4 He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

  • Phil 2:16
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    16 Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7 Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8 I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

  • Rom 1:15
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    15 For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
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    16 But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13 Though my desire was to keep him with me, to be my servant in the chains of the good news, in your place:

  • Gal 5:10-11
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    10 I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.

    11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13 And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

  • Eph 3:1
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    1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

  • Rom 15:17
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    17 So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.