Paul
and Timotheus,
the servants
of Jesus Christ,
to all the saints
in Christ Jesus
which are at Philippi,
with the bishops
and deacons:
Grace be
unto you,
and peace,
from God our Father,
and
from the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank
my God
upon every remembrance
of you,
Always in every prayer
of mine
for you
all making
request with joy,
For your fellowship
in the gospel
from the first day
until now;
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:
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.
For God
is my record,
how greatly
I long after you
all in the bowels
of Jesus Christ.
And this
I pray,
that your love
may abound yet
more
and more
in knowledge
and in all judgment;
That ye
may approve
things
that are excellent;
that ye
may be sincere
and
without offence
till the day
of Christ.
Being filled
with the fruits
of righteousness,
which are by Jesus Christ,
unto the glory
and praise
of God.
But I
would
ye should understand,
brethren,
that the things which
happened unto me
have fallen out rather
unto the furtherance
of the gospel;
So that
my bonds
in Christ
are manifest
in all the palace,
and
in all other places;
And many
of the brethren
in the Lord,
waxing confident
by my bonds,
are much more bold
to speak the word
without fear.
Some indeed preach Christ
even of envy
and strife;
and some
also of good will:
The one
preach Christ
of contention,
not sincerely,
supposing
to add affliction
to my bonds:
But the other
of love,
knowing that
I am set for the defence
of the gospel.
What then?
notwithstanding,
every way,
whether in pretence,
or in truth,
Christ is preached;
and
I therein do rejoice,
yea,
and will rejoice.
For I
know that this
shall turn
to my salvation
through your prayer,
and the supply
of the Spirit
of Jesus Christ,
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.
For to me
to live
is Christ,
and to die is gain.
But
if I
live
in the flesh,
this is the fruit
of my labour:
yet
what
I shall choose
I wot not.
For I
am in a strait
betwixt two,
having a desire
to depart,
and
to be
with Christ;
which is
far better:
Nevertheless
to abide in
the flesh
is more needful
for you.
And having
this confidence,
I know that
I shall abide
and continue
with you
all for your furtherance
and joy
of faith;
That your rejoicing
may be more abundant
in Jesus Christ
for me
by my coming
to you again.
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;
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.
For unto you
it is given in the behalf
of Christ,
not only
to believe on him,
but
also to suffer
for his sake;
Having the same conflict
which ye
saw in me,
and now hear
to be in me.
If there be therefore any consolation
in Christ,
if any comfort
of love,
if any fellowship
of the Spirit,
if any bowels
and mercies,
Fulfil ye
my joy,
that ye
be likeminded,
having the same love,
being
of one accord,
of one mind.
Let nothing
be done
through strife
or vainglory;
but in lowliness
of mind
let each esteem other better
than themselves.
Look
not every man
on his own things,
but every man
also on the things
of others.
Let this mind
be in you,
which was also
in Christ Jesus:
Who,
being in the form
of God,
thought it
not robbery to be
equal
with God:
But made himself
of no reputation,
and took upon him the form
of a servant,
and was made
in the likeness
of men:
And being found
in fashion
as a man,
he humbled himself,
and became obedient
unto death,
even the death
of the cross.
Wherefore God
also hath highly exalted him,
and given him
a name which
is above every name:
That at the name
of Jesus
every knee
should bow,
of things
in heaven,
and things
in earth,
and things
under the earth;
And
that every tongue
should confess
that Jesus Christ
is Lord,
to the glory
of God the Father.
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.
For it
is
God which
worketh in you both to
will
and
to do
of his good pleasure.
Do all things
without murmurings
and disputings:
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;
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.
Yea,
and
if I
be offered
upon the sacrifice
and service
of your faith,
I joy,
and rejoice
with you all.
For the same cause
also do
ye joy,
and
rejoice with me.
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.
For I
have
no man likeminded,
who will naturally care
for your state.
For all seek their own,
not the things
which are Jesus Christ's.
But ye
know
the proof
of him, that,
as a son
with the father,
he hath served
with me
in the gospel.
Him
therefore I
hope
to send presently,
so soon as I
shall see how
it will go with me.
But I
trust
in the Lord
that I
also myself
shall come shortly.
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.
For he
longed after you all,
and was full of heaviness,
because
that
ye had heard that
he had been sick.
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.
I sent him therefore
the more carefully,
that,
when
ye see him again,
ye may rejoice,
and
that I
may be
the less sorrowful.
Receive him therefore
in the Lord
with all gladness;
and hold such
in reputation:
Because
for the work
of Christ
he was nigh
unto death,
not regarding
his life,
to supply your lack
of service
toward me.
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.
Beware of dogs,
beware
of evil workers,
beware
of the concision.
For we
are the circumcision,
which worship God
in the spirit,
and rejoice
in Christ Jesus,
and have no confidence
in the flesh.
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:
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;
Concerning zeal,
persecuting
the church;
touching
the righteousness
which is in the law,
blameless.
But
what things
were gain to me,
those I
counted loss
for Christ.
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,
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:
That I
may know him,
and the power
of his resurrection,
and the fellowship
of his sufferings,
being made conformable
unto his death;
If by any means
I might attain
unto the resurrection
of the dead.
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.
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,
I press toward
the mark
for the prize
of the high calling
of God
in Christ Jesus.
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.
Nevertheless,
whereto
we have already attained,
let us
walk
by the same rule,
let us mind
the same thing.
Brethren,
be followers
together of me,
and mark them which walk so
as ye have us
for an ensample.
(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:
Whose end
is destruction,
whose God
is their belly,
and whose glory
is in their shame,
who mind earthly things.)
For our conversation
is in heaven;
from whence also
we look for
the Saviour,
the Lord Jesus Christ:
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.
Therefore,
my brethren dearly beloved
and longed for,
my joy and crown,
so stand
fast in the Lord,
my dearly beloved.
I beseech Euodias,
and beseech
Syntyche,
that they
be of the same mind
in the Lord.
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.
Rejoice
in the Lord alway:
and again
I say,
Rejoice.
Let your moderation
be known unto all men.
The Lord is at hand.
Be careful
for nothing;
but in every thing
by prayer and
supplication
with thanksgiving
let your requests
be made
known
unto God.
And the peace
of God,
which passeth
all understanding,
shall keep your hearts
and minds
through Christ Jesus.
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.
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.
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.
Not that
I speak
in respect
of want:
for I
have learned,
in whatsoever state
I am,
therewith to be content.
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.
I can do
all things
through Christ which
strengtheneth me.
Notwithstanding
ye have well done,
that ye
did communicate
with my affliction.
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.
For even in Thessalonica
ye sent once and
again unto my necessity.
Not
because
I desire a gift:
but
I desire fruit
that may abound
to your account.
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.
But my God
shall supply all
your need
according to his riches
in glory
by Christ Jesus.
Now unto God
and our Father
be glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Salute every saint
in Christ Jesus.
The brethren which
are with me
greet you.
All the saints salute you,
chiefly
they
that are of Caesar's household.
The grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all.
Amen.