| 001:001
| Paul
and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus
which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: |
| 001:002 | Grace
be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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| 001:003 | I
thank my God upon every remembrance of you, |
| 001:004 | Always
in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, |
| 001:005 | For
your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; |
| 001:006 | Being
confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will
perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: |
| 001:007 | Even
as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart;
inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel,
ye all are partakers of my grace. |
| 001:008 | For
God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
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| 001:009 | And
this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in
all judgment; |
| 001:010 | That
ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without
offence till the day of Christ. |
| 001:011 | Being
filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the
glory and praise of God. |
| 001:012 | But
I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto
me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; |
| 001:013 | So
that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
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| 001:014 | And
many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more
bold to speak the word without fear. |
| 001:015 | Some
indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: |
| 001:016 | The
one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction
to my bonds: |
| 001:017 | But
the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. |
| 001:018 | What
then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ
is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. |
| 001:019 | For
I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply
of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, |
| 001:020 | According
to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed,
but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified
in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. |
| 001:021 | For
to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. |
| 001:022 | But
if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose
I wot not. |
| 001:023 | For
I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ;
which is far better: |
| 001:024 | Nevertheless
to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. |
| 001:025 | And
having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all
for your furtherance and joy of faith; |
| 001:026 | That
your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to
you again. |
| 001:027 | Only
let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether
I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye
stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of
the gospel; |
| 001:028 | And
in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token
of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. |
| 001:029 | For
unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but
also to suffer for his sake; |
| 001:030 | Having
the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me. |
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| 002:001
| If
there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, | | 002:002 | Fulfil
ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord,
of one mind. |
| 002:003 | Let
nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each
esteem other better than themselves. |
| 002:004 | Look
not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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| 002:005 | Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: |
| 002:006 | Who,
being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: |
| 002:007 | But
made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and
was made in the likeness of men: |
| 002:008 | And
being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross. |
| 002:009 | Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every
name: |
| 002:010 | That
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things
in earth, and things under the earth; |
| 002:011 | And
that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the Father. |
| 002:012 | Wherefore,
my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. |
| 002:013 | For
it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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| 002:014 | Do
all things without murmurings and disputings: |
| 002:015 | That
ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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| 002:016 | Holding
forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have
not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. |
| 002:017 | Yea,
and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and
rejoice with you all. |
| 002:018 | For
the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. |
| 002:019 | But
I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may
be of good comfort, when I know your state. |
| 002:020 | For
I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. |
| 002:021 | For
all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. |
| 002:022 | But
ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with
me in the gospel. |
| 002:023 | Him
therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with
me. |
| 002:024 | But
I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. |
| 002:025 | Yet
I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion
in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to
my wants. |
| 002:026 | For
he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard
that he had been sick. |
| 002:027 | For
indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him
only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. |
| 002:028 | I
sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may
rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. |
| 002:029 | Receive
him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: |
| 002:030 | Because
for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply
your lack of service toward me. |
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| 003:001
| Finally,
my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed
is not grievous, but for you it is safe. | | 003:002 | Beware
of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. |
| 003:003 | For
we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ
Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. |
| 003:004 | Though
I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he
hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: |
| 003:005 | Circumcised
the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew
of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; |
| 003:006 | Concerning
zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law,
blameless. |
| 003:007 | But
what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. |
| 003:008 | Yea
doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, |
| 003:009 | And
be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but
that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God
by faith: |
| 003:010 | That
I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his
sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; |
| 003:011 | If
by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. |
| 003:012 | Not
as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow
after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ
Jesus. |
| 003:013 | Brethren,
I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting
those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are
before, |
| 003:014 | I
press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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| 003:015 | Let
us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye
be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. |
| 003:016 | Nevertheless,
whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind
the same thing. |
| 003:017 | Brethren,
be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for
an ensample. |
| 003:018 | (For
many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that
they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: |
| 003:019 | Whose
end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame,
who mind earthly things.) |
| 003:020 | For
our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the
Lord Jesus Christ: |
| 003:021 | Who
shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious
body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things
unto himself. |
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| 004:001
| Therefore,
my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast
in the Lord, my dearly beloved. | | 004:002 | I
beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the
Lord. |
| 004:003 | And
I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with
me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose
names are in the book of life. |
| 004:004 | Rejoice
in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. |
| 004:005 | Let
your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. |
| 004:006 | Be
careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God. |
| 004:007 | And
the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and
minds through Christ Jesus. |
| 004:008 | Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there
be any praise, think on these things. |
| 004:009 | Those
things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me,
do: and the God of peace shall be with you. |
| 004:010 | But
I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished
again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. |
| 004:011 | Not
that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I
am, therewith to be content. |
| 004:012 | I
know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all
things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and
to suffer need. |
| 004:013 | I
can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. |
| 004:014 | Notwithstanding
ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. |
| 004:015 | Now
ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed
from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving,
but ye only. |
| 004:016 | For
even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. |
| 004:017 | Not
because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
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| 004:018 | But
I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things
which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable,
wellpleasing to God. |
| 004:019 | But
my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ
Jesus. |
| 004:020 | Now
unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen. |
| 004:021 | Salute
every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. |
| 004:022 | All
the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household. |
| 004:023 | The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. |