Philippians Chapter 1 verse 15 Holy Bible

ASV Philippians 1:15

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
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BBE Philippians 1:15

Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:
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DARBY Philippians 1:15

Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.
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KJV Philippians 1:15

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
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WBT Philippians 1:15


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WEB Philippians 1:15

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
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YLT Philippians 1:15

Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife. The Judaizing party, whom St. Paul censures in Philippians 3:2, preached Christ, but not from pure motives. Like the writers of the pseudo-Clementines, they envied St. Paul, and in the wicked madness of the odium theologicum, they wished to distress St. Paul, to depreciate his preaching, and to exalt their own. And some also of good will. The word generally means God's good pleasure, as in Philippians 2:13, but here simply good will, benevolence towards St. Paul.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) Of envy and strife.--Explained below as of "contention," or, more properly (as in Philippians 2:3, and in Romans 2:8; 2Corinthians 12:20; Galatians 5:20), of factiousness, or "party spirit." It seems impossible to doubt that this refers to the Judaising party, St. Paul's old antagonists. The whole tenor of the Epistle to the Romans shows how strong a Judaic element there was in Roman Christianity. Even in approaching Rome, we may gather from Acts 28:15, that the Apostle had felt doubtful of his reception there by the Church. His formal renunciation of the obstinate Jews, and proclamation that the Gentiles would hear what they had rejected, might excite against him not only the unbelieving Jews, but the Jewish and still more the Judaising Christians. The party "of Cephas" and the party "of Paul" might be placed in strong antagonism more easily than even at Corinth.