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BOOK 50

 BOOK OF PHILIPPIANS

CHAPTER 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:
2 Grace be unto you, and peace,
from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every
remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine
for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the
gospel from the first day until now;
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:
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.
8 For God is my record, how
greatly I long after you all in the
bowels of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your
love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That ye may approve things
that are excellent; that ye may be
sincere and without offence till the
day of Christ;
11 Being filled with the fruits
of righteousness, which are by Jesus
Christ, unto the glory and praise of
God.
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;
13 So that my bonds in Christ
are manifest in all the palace, and
in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in
the Lord, waxing confident by my
bonds, are much more bold to speak
the word without fear.
15 Some indeed preach Christ
even of envy and strife; and some
also of good will:
16 The one preach Christ of
contention, not sincerely, supposing
to add affliction to my bonds:
17 But the other of love,
knowing that I am set for the defence
of the gospel.
18 What then? notwithstanding,
every way, whether in pretence, or in
truth, Christ is preached; and I
therein do rejoice, yea, and will
rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall
turn to my salvation through your
prayer, and the supply of the Spirit
of Jesus Christ,
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.
21 For to me to live is Christ,
and to die is gain.
22 But if I live in the flesh,
this is the fruit of my labour: yet
what I shall choose I wot not.
23 For I am in a strait betwixt
two, having a desire to depart, and
to be with Christ; which is far
better:
24 Nevertheless to abide in the
flesh is more needful for you.
25 And having this confidence, I
know that I shall abide and continue
with you all for your furtherance and
joy of faith;
26 That your rejoicing may be
more abundant in Jesus Christ for me
by my coming to you again.
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;
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.
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;
30 Having the same conflict
which ye saw in me, and now hear to
be in me.

CHAPTER 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 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be
likeminded, having the same love,
being of one accord, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through
strife or vainglory; but in lowliness
of mind let each esteem other better
than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own
things, but every man also on the
things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal
with God:
7 But made himself of no
reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in
the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as
a man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death
of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him, and given him a name
which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in
heaven, and things in 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 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.
13 For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of his
good pleasure.
14 Do all things without
murmurings and disputings:
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;
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.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon
the sacrifice and service of your
faith, I joy, and rejoice with you
all.
18 For the same cause also do ye
joy, and rejoice with me.
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.
20 For I have no man likeminded,
who will naturally care for your
state.
21 For all seek their own, not
the things which are Jesus Christ's.
22 But ye know the proof of him,
that, as a son with the father, he
hath served with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send
presently, so soon as I shall see how
it will go with me.
24 But I trust in the Lord that
I also myself shall come shortly.
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.
26 For he longed after you all,
and was full of heaviness, because
that ye had heard that he had been
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,
lest I should have sorrow upon
sorrow.
28 I sent him therefore the more
carefully, 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 gladness; and hold such
in reputation:
30 Because for the work of
Christ he was nigh unto death, not
regarding his life, to supply your
lack of 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 grievous,
but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil
workers, beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision,
which worship God in the spirit, and
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no
confidence in the flesh.
4 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:
5 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;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting
the church; touching the
righteousness which is in the law,
blameless.
7 But what things were gain to
me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 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,
9 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:
10 That I may know him, and the
power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being
made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might
attain unto the resurrection of the
dead.
12 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.
13 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,
14 I press toward the mark for
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
any thing ye be otherwise minded, God
shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have
already attained, let us walk by the
same rule, let us mind the same
thing.
17 Brethren, be followers
together of me, and mark them which
walk so as ye have us for an
ensample.
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:
19 Whose end is destruction,
whose God is their belly, and whose
glory is in their shame, who mind
earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in
heaven; from whence also we look for
the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 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.

CHAPTER 4
1 Therefore, my brethren dearly
beloved and longed for, my joy and
crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my
dearly beloved.
2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech
Syntyche, that they be of the same
mind in the Lord.
3 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.
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and
again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your moderation be known
unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 Be careful for nothing; but in
every thing 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 keep
your hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 Not that I speak in respect
of want: for I have learned, in
whatsoever state I am, therewith to
be content.
12 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.
13 I can do all things through
Christ which strengtheneth me.
14 Notwithstanding ye have well
done, that ye did communicate with my
affliction.
15 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.
16 For even in Thessalonica ye
sent once and again unto my
necessity.
17 Not because I desire a gift:
but I desire fruit that may abound to
your account.
18 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.
19 But my God shall supply all
your need according to his riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.
20 Now unto God and our Father
be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
21 Salute every saint in Christ
Jesus. The brethren which are with me
greet you.
22 All the saints salute you,
chiefly they that are of Caesar's
household.
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all. Amen.