
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

   {1:1} Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints
in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
{1:2} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. {1:3} I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you, {1:4}
always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my
supplication with joy, {1:5} for your fellowship in furtherance of the
gospel from the first day until now; {1:6} being confident of this very
thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the
day of Jesus Christ: {1:7} 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. {1:8} For God is my witness, how I long
after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. {1:9} And this I
pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all
discernment; {1:10} so that ye may approve the things that are
excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of
Christ; {1:11} being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are
through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. {1:12} Now I
would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me
have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel; {1:13} so that
my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian
guard, and to all the rest; {1:14} 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. {1:15} Some indeed preach Christ
even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: {1:16} the one [do
it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;
{1:17} but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely,
thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds. {1:18} What then?
only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is
proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. {1:19} For I
know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your
supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, {1:20}
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.
{1:21} For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. {1:22} But if
to live in the flesh, --[if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then
what I shall choose I know not. {1:23} But I am in a strait betwixt the
two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far
better: {1:24} yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
{1:25} And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and
abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith; {1:26} that
your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with
you again. {1:27} Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel
of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and 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; {1:28} and in nothing affrighted by the
adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of
your salvation, and that from God; {1:29} 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: {1:30} having the same conflict which ye saw
in me, and now hear to be in me.



   {2:1} If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any
consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender
mercies and compassions, {2:2} make full my joy, that ye be of the same
mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; {2:3}
[doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness
of mind each counting other better than himself; {2:4} not looking each
of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
{2:5} Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: {2:6} who,
existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with
God a thing to be grasped, {2:7} but emptied himself, taking the form
of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; {2:8} and being found
in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto
death, yea, the death of the cross. {2:9} Wherefore also God highly
exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;
{2:10} that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in
heaven and [things] on 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} 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; {2:13}
for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good
pleasure. {2:14} Do all things without murmurings and questionings:
{2:15} that ye may become 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, {2:16} 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 labor in vain. {2:17} Yea, and if I
am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and
rejoice with you all: {2:18} and in the same manner do ye also joy, and
rejoice with me. {2:19} 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. {2:20} For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for
your state. {2:21} For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus
Christ. {2:22} But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child [serveth]
a father, [so] he served with me in furtherance of the gospel. {2:23}
Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it
will go with me: {2:24} but I trust in the Lord that I myself also
shall come shortly. {2:25} 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; {2:26} since he longed after you
all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was 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, that I might not have sorrow
upon sorrow. {2:28} 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. {2:29} Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and
hold such in honor: {2:30} 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.



   {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.
{3:2} Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the
concision: {3:3} for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit
of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:
{3:4} though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any
other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: {3:5}
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; {3:6}
as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness
which is in the law, found blameless. {3:7} Howbeit what things were
gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. {3:8} 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 refuse, that I may gain Christ, {3:9} 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 from God by faith: {3:10} that I may know him, and the power
of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming
conformed unto his death; {3:11} if by any means I may attain unto the
resurrection from the dead. {3:12} Not that I have already obtained, or
am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold
on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus. {3:13}
Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing [I
do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to
the things which are before, {3:14} I press on toward the goal unto the
prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. {3:15} Let us
therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything
ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you: {3:16}
only, whereunto we have attained, by that same [rule] let us walk.
{3:17} Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so
walk even as ye have us for an ensample. {3:18} 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: {3:19} whose end is perdition, whose
god is the belly, and [whose] glory is in their shame, who mind earthly
things. {3:20} For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait
for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: {3:21} 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.





   {4:1} Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and
crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved. {4:2} I exhort Euodia,
and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord. {4:3} Yea, I
beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored
with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my
fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life. {4:4} Rejoice in
the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice. {4:5} Let your forbearance
be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. {4:6} In nothing be
anxious; but in everything 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 guard your hearts and your
thoughts in Christ Jesus. {4:8} Finally, brethren, whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are honorable, 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} 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. {4:10} 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. {4:11} Not that I speak
in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
therein to be content. {4:12} 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. {4:13} I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me. {4:14}
Howbeit ye did well that ye had fellowship with my affliction. {4:15}
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; {4:16} for
even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need. {4:17} Not
that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to
your account. {4:18} But I have all things, and abound: I am filled,
having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, and
odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
{4:19} And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his
riches in glory in Christ Jesus. {4:20} Now unto our God and Father
[be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen. {4:21} Salute every saint in
Christ Jesus. The brethren that are with me salute you. {4:22} All the
saints salute you, especially they that are of Caesar's household.
{4:23} The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.




