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PHILIPPIANS
CHAPTER
1
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¶ Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus
which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 ¶ I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,
4 always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my
supplication with joy,
5 for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;
6 being confident of this very thing, that he which began a good work in you
will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 ¶ even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf 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 with me of grace.
8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of
Christ Jesus.
9 ¶ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge
and all discernment;
10 so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere
and void of offence unto the day of Christ;
11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus
Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 ¶ Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto
me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;
13 so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian
guard, and to all the rest;
14 and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds,
are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good
will:
16 the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel:
17 but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up
affliction for me in my bonds.
18 What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is
proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation, through your supplication
and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put
to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be
magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
21 ¶ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if to live in the flesh,––[if] this is the fruit of my work, then
what I shall choose I wot not.
23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with
Christ; for it is very far better:
24 yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with
you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;
26 that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with
you again.
27 ¶ Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that,
whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand
fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;
28 and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident
token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;
29 because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to
believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:
30 having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
CHAPTER
2
1 ¶ If there is therefore any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if
any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,
2 fulfill ye my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of
one accord, of one mind;
3 [doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind
each counting other better than himself;
4 not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things
of others.
5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality
with God,
7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness
of men;
8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient
[even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is
above every name;
10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and
[things] on earth and [things] under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father.
12 ¶ So then, my beloved, even 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;
13 for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good
pleasure.
14 ¶ Do all things without murmurings and disputings;
15 that ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the
midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in
the world,
16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day
of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labour in vain.
17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy,
and rejoice with you all:
18 and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy 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 care truly for your state.
21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child [serveth] a father, [so] he
served with me in furtherance of the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go
with me:
24 but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly.
25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and
fellow–worker and fellow–soldier, and your messenger and minister to my
need;
26 since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard
that he was 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, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, 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 joy; and hold such in honour:
30 because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to
supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
CHAPTER
3
1 ¶ Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you,
to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:
3 for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:
4 ¶ though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man
thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,
a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which
is in the law, found blameless.
7 Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things,
and do count them but dung, that I may gain Christ,
9 ¶ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that
which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the
righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of
his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
11 if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on,
if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ
Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself yet to have apprehended: but one thing [I do],
forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things
which are before,
14 I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in
Christ Jesus.
15 ¶ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in
anything ye are otherwise minded, even this shall God reveal unto you:
16 only, whereunto we have already attained, by that same [rule] let us walk.
17 ¶ Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them which so walk even
as ye have us for an ensample.
18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that
they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and [whose] glory is in their
shame, who mind earthly things.
20 For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the
Lord Jesus Christ:
21 who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be]
conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able
even to subject all things unto himself.
CHAPTER
4
1 ¶ Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand
fast in the Lord, my beloved.
2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord.
3 Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they laboured
with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow–workers,
whose names are in the book of life.
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: again I will say, Rejoice.
5 Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts
and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are
honourable, 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.
9 The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these
things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
10 ¶ But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your
thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state
I am, therein to be content.
12 I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in
all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to
abound and to be in want.
13 I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
14 Howbeit ye did well, that ye had fellowship with my affliction.
15 And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the
gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the
matter of giving and receiving, but ye only;
16 for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need.
17 Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to
your account.
18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from
Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a
sacrifice acceptable, well–pleasing to God.
19 And my God shall fulfill every need of yours according to his riches in glory
in Christ Jesus.
20 ¶ Now unto our God and Father [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me salute
you.
22 All the saints salute you, especially they that are of Caesar’s household.
23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
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