The Gospel Is Preached
12 Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel, 13 so that my 1:13 Lit bondsimprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the 1:13 Or governor’s palacepraetorian guard and to everyone else, 14 and that most of the brothers and sisters,1:14 Or in the Lord, trusting because oftrusting in the Lord because of my 1:14 Lit bondsimprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear.
20 according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
To Live Is Christ
21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.