[1:12] I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,
[1:13] so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.
[1:14] And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
[1:15] Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.
[1:16] The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
[1:17] The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.
[1:18] What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.