Philippians 1:12
Good News Translation
I want you to know, my friends, that the things that have happened to me have really helped the progress of the gospel.

New Revised Standard Version
I want you to know, beloved, that what has happened to me has actually helped to spread the gospel,

Contemporary English Version
My dear friends, I want you to know that what has happened to me has helped to spread the good news.

New American Bible
I want you to know, brothers, that my situation has turned out rather to advance the gospel,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now, brethren, I desire you should know that the things which have happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now, brethren, I desire you should know that the things which have happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel:

that.

Acts 21:28 Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men every where against the people and the law and this place; and moreover hath brought in Gentiles into the temple and hath violated this holy place.

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Acts 22:1-30 Men, brethren and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give unto you. . . .

Acts 28:1-31 And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy. . . .

rather.

Exodus 18:11 Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.

Esther 9:1 So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be massacred, and their enemies were greedy after their blood, the case being altered, the Jews began to have the upper hand, and to revenge themselves of their adversaries.

Psalm 76:10 For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

Acts 8:4 They therefore that were dispersed went about preaching the word of God.

Acts 11:19-21 Now they who had been dispersed by the persecution that arose on occasion of Stephen went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only. . . .

Romans 8:28,37 And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. . . .

2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound.

Context
Paul's Trials Advance the Gospel
11Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. 12Now, brethren, I desire you should know that the things which have happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel: 13So that my bands are made manifest in Christ, in all the court and in all other places.…
Cross References
Luke 21:13
And it shall happen unto you for a testimony.

Philippians 1:5
For your communication in the gospel of Christ, from the first day unto now.

Philippians 1:7
As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

Philippians 2:22
Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel.

Philippians 4:3
And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women who have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Philippians 4:15
And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only.

1 Timothy 2:8
I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Philippians 1:11
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