1 PAUL and Timotheus, the aservants
of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bbishops
and cdeacons
:
2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will aperform
it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is ameet
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 bconfirmation
of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my cgrace
.
8 For God is my arecord
, how greatly I long after you all in the bbowels
of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your alove
may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That ye may aapprove
things that are excellent; that ye may be bsincere
and without offence till the day of Christ;
11 Being filled with the fruits of arighteousness
, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have afallen
out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the apalace
, and in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without afear
.
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and astrife
; and some also of good will:
16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your aprayer
, and the supply of the bSpirit
of Jesus Christ,
20 According to my earnest expectation and my
ahope
, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be bmagnified
in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I awot
not.
23 For I am ain
a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
24 Nevertheless to aabide
in the flesh is more needful for you.
25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
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 astand
fast in one spirit, with bone
cmind
dstriving
together for the faith of the gospel;
28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: awhich
is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to asuffer
for his sake;
30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
1 IF
there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any abowels
and mercies,
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same alove
, being of bone
caccord
, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through astrife
or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each besteem
other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the aform
of God, thought it not robbery to be bequal
with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a aservant
, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in afashion
as a man, he bhumbled
himself, and became cobedient
unto ddeath
, even the edeath
of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly aexalted
him, and given him a bname
which is above every name:
10 That at the aname
of Jesus every bknee
should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
aLord
, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, awork
out your own bsalvation
with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and adisputings
:
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the asons
of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse bnation
, among whom ye cshine
as lights in the world;
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.
17 Yea, and if I be aoffered
upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
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.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all aseek
their bown
, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But ye know the aproof
of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you aEpaphroditus
, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
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.
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.
29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all agladness
; and bhold
such in creputation
:
30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your alack
of service toward me.
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.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3 For we are the acircumcision
, which bworship
God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the cflesh
.
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:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an aHebrew
of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a bPharisee
;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
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 asuffered
the bloss
of all things, and do count them but
cdung
, that I may win Christ,
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 arighteousness
which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the afellowship
of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the adead
.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already aperfect
: but I bfollow
after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
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,
14 I apress
toward the mark for the bprize
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be aperfect
, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be afollowers
together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an bensample
.
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:
19 Whose aend
is destruction, whose God is their belly, band
whose glory is in their cshame
, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the aSaviour
, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall achange
our bvile
body, cthat
it may be fashioned like unto his glorious dbody
, according to the working whereby he is able even to esubdue
all things unto himself.
1 THEREFORE, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so astand
fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
3 And I intreat thee also, true ayokefellow
, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the bbook
of life.
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your amoderation
be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 aBe
bcareful
for nothing; but in every thing by cprayer
and supplication with dthanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the apeace
of God, which passeth all bunderstanding
, shall ckeep
your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are atrue
, whatsoever things are
bhonest
, whatsoever things are
cjust
, whatsoever things are
dpure
, whatsoever things are
elovely
, fwhatsoever
things are of good report; if there be any gvirtue
, and if there be any praise, hthink
on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and areceived
, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your acare
of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye blacked
opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be acontent
.
12 I know both how to be aabased
, 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.
13 I can do all things through aChrist
which bstrengtheneth
me.
14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did acommunicate
with my affliction.
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.
16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire afruit
that may abound to your account.
18 But I have all, and aabound
: I am full, having received of bEpaphroditus
the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
19 But my God shall supply all your aneed
according to his briches
in glory by Christ Jesus.
20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.
22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of aCaesar
’s household.
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.