Philippians
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:
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Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
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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;
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Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun
a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
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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, all of you all are partakers of my grace.
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For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in
the bowels of Jesus Christ.
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And this I pray, that your love (o. agape) may abound yet
more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
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That all of you may approve things that are excellent; that
all of you 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.
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But I would all of you 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 (o. logos) without fear.
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Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some
also of good will:
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The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing
to add affliction to my bonds:
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But the other of love, (o. agape) knowing that I am set
for the defence of the gospel.
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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 (o. pneuma) of Jesus Christ,
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According to my earn 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.
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In order 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 know not.
1:23 For
I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ;
which is far better:
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Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more necessary 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;
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That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ
for me by my coming to you again.
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Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of
Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your
affairs, that all of you stand fast in one spirit, (o. pneuma) with one mind striving
together for the faith of the gospel;
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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;
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Having the same conflict which all of you saw in me, and
now hear to be in me.
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If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
comfort of love, (o. agape) if any fellowship of the Spirit, (o. pneuma) if any
bowels and mercies,
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Fulfill all of you my joy, that all of you be likeminded,
having the same love, (o. agape) being of one accord, of one mind.
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Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in
lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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Look not every man on his own things, but every man also
on the things of others.
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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:
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And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him
a name which is above every name:
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That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things
in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
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And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Wherefore, my beloved, as all of you 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.
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For it is God which works in you both to will and to do
of his good pleasure.
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Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
2:15 That
all of you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in
the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom all of you shine as lights
in the world;
2:16 Holding
forth the word (o. logos) of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that
I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service
of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
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For the same cause also do all of you 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.
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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.
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But all of you know the proof of him, that, as a son with
the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
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Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall
see how it will go with me.
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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 fellow soldier, 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 all of you had
heard that he had been sick.
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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 all of you see him again, all
of you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
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Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and
hold such in reputation:
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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.
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For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit,
(o. pneuma) 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 thinks that he has
whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
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Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the
tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as concerning the law, a Pharisee;
3:6 Concerning
zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law,
blameless.
3:7 But
what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
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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,
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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,
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I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus.
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Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded:
and if in any thing all of you 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 all of you have us
for an example.
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:
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Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and
whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look
for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
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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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Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my
joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
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I plead to Euodias, and plead to Syntyche, that they be
of the same mind in the Lord.
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And I implore you also, true yokefellow, help those women
which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow
labourers, whose names are in the book of life.
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Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
4:5 Let your
moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
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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 passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus.
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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.
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Those things, which all of you 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 has flourished
again; wherein all of you were also careful, but all of you lacked opportunity.
4:11 Not
that I speak in respect of lack: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.
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I know both how to be brought low, 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.
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I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
4:14 Notwithstanding
all of you have well done, that all of you did communicate with my affliction.
4:15 Now
all of you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I
departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning (o. logos)
giving and receiving, but all of you only.
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For even in Thessalonica all of you sent once and again
unto my necessity.
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Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may
abound to your account. (o. logos)
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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, well-pleasing to God.
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But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches
in glory by Christ Jesus.
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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.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.