Philippians 1:17

WEB

¹⁷but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

KJV

¹⁷But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

BSB

¹⁷^[+] The former, however, preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can add to the distress of my chains.

FBV

¹⁷Those others present Christ deceptively because of their selfish ambitions, trying to cause me problems in my imprisonment.

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Extra References

2 Timothy 1:11-12

¹¹For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. ¹²For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Philippians 2:3

³doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

2 Timothy 4:6-7

⁶For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. ⁷I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

1 Corinthians 9:16-17

¹⁶For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News. ¹⁷For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

Acts 26:1

¹Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

Acts 26:24

²⁴As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Philippians 1:7

⁷It 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.

Romans 1:13-17

¹³Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (and was hindered so far), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. ¹⁷For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

1 Timothy 2:7

⁷to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Luke 21:14

¹⁴Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,