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Philippians 1:16

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Philippi was a Roman colony in Macedonia, in northern Greece, where Paul had founded a church during his second missionary journey. Though Philippians 1:16 concerns Paul’s imprisonment and gospel defense elsewhere, the Philippian believers’ connection to his ministry gives the letter its personal setting.

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