THE Entire Epistle of Paul to the Philippians;
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Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
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Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
Ch.1 Phil.
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 defense 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
defense 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 labor:
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.
Ch. 2 Phil.
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 fulfill 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 labored 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 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 ye had heard that
he had been sick.
2:27 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.
2:28 I sent him therefore
the more carefully that,
when ye see him again,
ye may rejoice,
and that I may be the
less sorrowful.
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 nigh unto death,
not regarding his life,
to supply your lack of service
toward me.
Ch. 3 Phil.
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.
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 thinketh that he
hath 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,
an 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 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,
3:9 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:
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 anything ye 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 them which walk so,
as ye have us for an ensample.*
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 conversation is in heaven;
from whence also we look for the
Savior,
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.
*In ch.3:17, the translation may be
better explained, that Paul is telling us to
walk as Jesus walked, whose example he,
and the other diciples, are walking,
by faith in Jesus.*
(For further explination, see 1st.Cor.1:12-15.)
Ch. 4 Phil.
4:1 Therefore, my brethren,
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 thee 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 alway:
And again I say, rejoice.
4:5 Let your moderation be
known unto all men.
The Lord is at hand.
4:6 Be careful 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
passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds,
through Christ Jesus.
4:8 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.
4:9 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.
4:10 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.
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:
Everywhere, 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 strengtheneth me.
4:14 Notwithstanding,
ye have well done, that ye did
communicate with my affliction.
4:15 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.
4:16 For even in Thessalonica,
ye 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 for ever, and ever.
Amen.
4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus.
The brethren 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.