The Letter Of Paul The Apostle To The Philippians
 
   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 my 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 has begun a good
   work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
 
   1:7 Just as it is suitable for me to think this of you all, because I
   have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense
   and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.
 
   1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the
   insides 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 you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be
   sincere and without offense 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 you should understand, brothers, 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 brothers in the Lord, growing 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 defense of
   the gospel.
 
   1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in
   truth, Christ is preached; and I in it do rejoice, yes, 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 labor: yet
   what I shall choose I know not.
 
   1:23 For I am in a tight place between the two, having a desire to
   depart, an to be with Christ; which is far better:
 
   1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needed by 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 conduct be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that
   whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your
   affairs, that you 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 you 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 insides and mercies,
 
   2:2 Fulfill you my joy, that you 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 Therefore God also has 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 Therefore, my beloved, as you 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 works in you both to will and to do of his
   good pleasure.
 
   2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 2:15 That you
   may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the
   midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you 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 labored in vain.
 
   2:17 Yes, 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 you 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 you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he
   has 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 labor, and fellow soldier, 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 you had heard that he had been sick.
 
   2:27 For indeed he was sick close unto death: but God had mercy on
   him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow
   upon sorrow.
 
   2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when you see him
   again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
 
   2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold
   such in reputation:
 
   2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was close unto death, not
   regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
 
   3:1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
   things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
 
   3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
 
   3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and
   rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
 
   3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man
   thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
 
   3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe
   of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
 
   3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the
   righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
 
   3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
 
   3:8 Yes 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,
 
   3:9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of
   the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
   righteousness which is of God by faith:
 
   3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
   fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
 
   3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
 
   3:12 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.
 
   3:13 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,
 
   3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
   in Christ Jesus.
 
   3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if
   in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto
   you.
 
   3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by
   the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
 
   3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark those who walk so
   as you have us for an example.
 
   3:18 (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:
 
   3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose
   glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
 
   3:20 For our conduct is in heaven; from where also we look for the
   Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
 
   3:21 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.
 
   4:1 Therefore, my brothers dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and
   crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
 
   4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same
   mind in the Lord.
 
   4:3 And I entreat you also, true yokefellow, help those women which
   labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my
   fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
 
   4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
 
   4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
 
   4:6 Be anxious for nothing; 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 passes all understanding, shall keep
   your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
 
   4:8 Finally, brothers, 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.
 
   4:9 Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and
   heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
 
   4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your
   care of me has flourished again; in which you were also anxious, but
   you lacked opportunity.
 
   4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in
   whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
 
   4:12 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.
 
   4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
 
   4:14 Notwithstanding you have well done, that you did communicate with
   my affliction.
 
   4:15 Now you 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 you only.
 
   4:16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again unto my
   necessity.
 
   4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound
   to your account.
 
   4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of
   Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet
   smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.
 
   4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in
   glory by Christ Jesus.
 
   4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
 
   4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers which are with
   me greet you.
 
   4:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's
   household.
 
   4:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.