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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:
1:2 Grace be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and
from] the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
1:4 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;
1:6 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:
1:7 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.
1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in
the bowels of Jesus Christ.
1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and
more in knowledge and in] all judgment;
1:10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye 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.
1:12 But I would ye 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 without fear.
1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and
some also of good will:
1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely,
supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the
defence of the gospel.
1:18 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 of Jesus Christ,
1:20 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.
1:21 For 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 wot not.
1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to
depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is] more needful 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;
1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ
for me by my coming to you again.
1:27 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 stand fast in one spirit, with one
mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
1:28 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;
1:30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear
to be] in me.
2:1 If there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels
and mercies,
2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same
love, being] of one accord, of one mind.
2:3 Let] nothing be done] through strife or vainglory; but in
lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on
the things of others.
2:5 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:
2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a
name which is above every name:
2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
things] in heaven, and things] in 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 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.
2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do
of his] good pleasure.
2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
2:15 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;
2:16 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.
2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of
your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
2:18 For the same cause also do ye 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.
2:20 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.
2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the
father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall
see how it will go with me.
2:24 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 fellowsoldier, 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 ye had heard that he had been sick.
2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death:but God had mercy
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