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| Book 50 - New
Testament Book of Philippians - King James Version |
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PHILIPPIANS
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| 001:001
| 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,
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| 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 hath 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, ye 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 may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in
all judgment;
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| That ye may approve
things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without
offence till the day of Christ.
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| 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 ye
should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto
me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
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| So that my bonds in
Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
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| And many of the
brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more
bold to speak the word 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, 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.
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| For I know that this
shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of
the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
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| 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.
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| For to me to live is
Christ, and to die is gain.
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| But if I live in the
flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I
wot not.
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| For I am in a strait
betwixt 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 needful for you.
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| 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 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;
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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.
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| 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 ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
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| CHAPTER
2
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| 002:001
| If there be
therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if
any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
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| Fulfil ye my joy,
that ye be likeminded, having the same love, 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:
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| Who, being in the
form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
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| 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
hath 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 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.
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| For it is God which
worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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| Do all things
without murmurings and disputings:
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| 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;
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| 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.
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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 ye joy, and rejoice with me.
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| 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.
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| For all seek their
own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
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| But ye know the
proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath 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.
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| 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.
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| For he longed after
you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye 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.
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| I sent him therefore
the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye 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.
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| CHAPTER
3
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| 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.
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| 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, and rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
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| 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:
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| 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;
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| Concerning zeal,
persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the
law, blameless.
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| 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;
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| 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 ye be
otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
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| Nevertheless,
whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule,
let us mind the same thing.
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| Brethren, be
followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have
us for an ensample.
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| (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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| CHAPTER
4
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| 004:001
| 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 beseech Euodias,
and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
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| 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.
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| Rejoice in the Lord
alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
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| 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.
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| And the peace of
God, which passeth 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
ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do:
and the God of peace shall be with you.
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| 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.
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| Not that I speak in
respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.
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| 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.
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| I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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| Notwithstanding ye
have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
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| 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.
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| For even in
Thessalonica ye 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.
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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, wellpleasing 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.
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| Salute every saint
in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.
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| 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.
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