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BOOK 50  ........BOOK OF PHILIPPIANS
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.....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
right