1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the

saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops

and deacons:

1:2 Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and

[from] the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

1:4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request

with joy,

1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until

now;

1:6 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:

1:7 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.

1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in

the bowels of Jesus Christ.

1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more

in knowledge and [in] all judgment;

1:10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may

be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by

Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things

[which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the

furtherance of the gospel;

1:13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace,

and in all other [places];

1:14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by

my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some

also of good will:

1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely,

supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the

defence of the gospel.

1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence,

or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea,

and will rejoice.

1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through

your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

1:20 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.

1:21 For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.

1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my

labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to

depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for

you.

1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and

continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ

for me by my coming to you again.

1:27 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;

1:28 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.

1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only

to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

1:30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear

[to be] in me.

2:1 If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any

comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels

and mercies,

2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same

love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.

2:3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in

lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on

the things of others.

2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be

equal with God:

2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the

form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and

became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a

name which is above every name:

2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of

[things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under

the earth;

2:11 And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ

[is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

2:12 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.

2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do

of [his] good pleasure.

2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

2:15 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;

2:16 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.

2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of

your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

2:19 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.

2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for

your state.

2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus

Christ's.

2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the

father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall

see how it will go with me.

2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come

shortly.

2:25 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.

2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness,

because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

2:27 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.

2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see

him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less

sorrowful.

2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and

hold such in reputation:

2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not

regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

3:1 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.

3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the

concision.

3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the

spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in

the flesh.

3:4 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:

3:5 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;

3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the

righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for

Christ.

3:8 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,

3:9 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:

3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and

the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto

his death;

3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the

dead.

3:12 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.

3:13 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,

3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling

of God in Christ Jesus.

3:15 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.

3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk

by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which

walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

3:18 (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:

3:19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and

[whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look

for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

3:21 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.

4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy

and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved.

4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the

same mind in the Lord.

4:3 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.

4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.

4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at

hand.

4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and

supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known

unto God.

4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall

keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

4:8 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.

4:9 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.

4:10 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.

4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in

whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.

4:12 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.

4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

4:14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate

with my affliction.

4:15 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.

4:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my

necessity.

4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may

abound to your account.

4:18 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.

4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his

riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

4:20 Now unto God and our Father [be] glory for ever and ever.

Amen.

4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are

with me greet you.

4:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of

Caesar's household.

4:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.

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