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PHILIPPIANS |
Chapter 1
PHI 1:1
Paul and Timothy, bond-servants of Christ
Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who
are in Philippi, including the overseers and
deacons:
PHI 1:2 Grace to you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
PHI 1:3 I thank my God in all my
remembrance of you,
PHI 1:4 always offering prayer with
joy in my every prayer for you all,
PHI 1:5 in view of your participation
in the gospel from the first day until now.
PHI 1:6 For I am confident of this
very thing, that He who began a good work in
you will perfect it until the day of Christ
Jesus.
PHI 1:7 For it is only right for me
to feel this way about you all, because I
have you in my heart, since both in my
imprisonment and in the defense and
confirmation of the gospel, you all are
partakers of grace with me.
PHI 1:8 For God is my witness, how I
long for you all with the affection of
Christ Jesus.
PHI 1:9 And this I pray, that your
love may abound still more and more in real
knowledge and all discernment,
PHI 1:10 so that you may approve the
things that are excellent, in order to be
sincere and blameless until the day of
Christ;
PHI 1:11 having been filled with the
fruit of righteousness which comes through
Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of
God.
PHI 1:12 Now I want you to know,
brethren, that my circumstances have turned
out for the greater progress of the gospel,
PHI 1:13 so that my imprisonment in
the cause of Christ has become well known
throughout the whole praetorian guard and to
everyone else,
PHI 1:14 and that most of the
brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my
imprisonment, have far more courage to speak
the word of God without fear.
PHI 1:15 Some, to be sure, are
preaching Christ even from envy and strife,
but some also from good will;
PHI 1:16 the latter do it out of
love, knowing that I am appointed for the
defense of the gospel;
PHI 1:17 the former proclaim Christ
out of selfish ambition, rather than from
pure motives, thinking to cause me distress
in my imprisonment.
PHI 1:18 What then? Only that in
every way, whether in pretense or in truth,
Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice,
yes, and I will rejoice.
PHI 1:19 For I know that this shall
turn out for my deliverance through your
prayers and the provision of the Spirit of
Jesus Christ,
PHI 1:20 according to my earnest
expectation and hope, that I shall not be
put to shame in anything, but that with all
boldness, Christ shall even now, as always,
be exalted in my body, whether by life or by
death.
PHI 1:21 For to me, to live is
Christ, and to die is gain.
PHI 1:22 But if I am to live on in
the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for
me; and I do not know which to choose.
PHI 1:23 But I am hard - pressed from
both directions, having the desire to depart
and be with Christ, for that is very much
better;
PHI 1:24 yet to remain on in the
flesh is more necessary for your sake.
PHI 1:25 And convinced of this, I
know that I shall remain and continue with
you all for your progress and joy in the
faith,
PHI 1:26 so that your proud
confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus
through my coming to you again.
PHI 1:27 Only conduct yourselves in a
manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so
that whether I come and see you or remain
absent, I may hear of you that you are
standing firm in one spirit, with one mind
striving together for the faith of the
gospel;
PHI 1:28 in no way alarmed by your
opponents - - which is a sign of destruction
for them, but of salvation for you, and that
too, from God.
PHI 1:29 For to you it has been
granted for Christ's sake, not only to
believe in Him, but also to suffer for His
sake,
PHI 1:30 experiencing the same
conflict which you saw in me, and now hear
to be in me.
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Chapter 2
PHI 2:1
If therefore there is any encouragement in
Christ, if there is any consolation of love,
if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if
any affection and compassion,
PHI 2:2 make my joy complete by being
of the same mind, maintaining the same love,
united in spirit, intent on one purpose.
PHI 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness
or empty conceit, but with humility of mind
let each of you regard one another as more
important than himself;
PHI 2:4 do not merely look out for
your own personal interests, but also for
the interests of others.
PHI 2:5 Have this attitude in
yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
PHI 2:6 who, although He existed in
the form of God, did not regard equality
with God a thing to be grasped,
PHI 2:7 but emptied Himself, taking
the form of a bond-servant, and being made
in the likeness of men.
PHI 2:8 And being found in appearance
as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming
obedient to the point of death, even death
on a cross.
PHI 2:9 Therefore also God highly
exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name
which is above every name,
PHI 2:10 that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of those who are in
heaven, and on earth, and under the earth,
PHI 2:11 and that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.
PHI 2:12 So then, my beloved, just as
you have always obeyed, not as in my
presence only, but now much more in my
absence, work out your salvation with fear
and trembling;
PHI 2:13 for it is God who is at work
in you, both to will and to work for His
good pleasure.
PHI 2:14 Do all things without
grumbling or disputing;
PHI 2:15 that you may prove
yourselves to be blameless and innocent,
children of God above reproach in the midst
of a crooked and perverse generation, among
whom you appear as lights in the world,
PHI 2:16 holding fast the word of
life, so that in the day of Christ I may
have cause to glory because I did not run in
vain nor toil in vain.
PHI 2:17 But even if I am being
poured out as a drink offering upon the
sacrifice and service of your faith, I
rejoice and share my joy with you all.
PHI 2:18 And you too, I urge you,
rejoice in the same way and share your joy
with me.
PHI 2:19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus
to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I
also may be encouraged when I learn of your
condition.
PHI 2:20 For I have no one else of
kindred spirit who will genuinely be
concerned for your welfare.
PHI 2:21 For they all seek after
their own interests, not those of Christ
Jesus.
PHI 2:22 But you know of his proven
worth that he served with me in the
furtherance of the gospel like a child
serving his father.
PHI 2:23 Therefore I hope to send him
immediately, as soon as I see how things go
with me;
PHI 2:24 and I trust in the Lord that
I myself also shall be coming shortly.
PHI 2:25 But I thought it necessary
to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and
fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is
also your messenger and minister to my need;
PHI 2:26 because he was longing for
you all and was distressed because you had
heard that he was sick.
PHI 2:27 For indeed he was sick to
the point of death, but God had mercy on
him, and not on him only but also on me,
lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
PHI 2:28 Therefore I have sent him
all the more eagerly in order that when you
see him again you may rejoice and I may be
less concerned about you.
PHI 2:29 Therefore receive him in the
Lord with all joy, and hold men like him in
high regard;
PHI 2:30 because he came close to
death for the work of Christ, risking his
life to complete what was deficient in your
service to me.
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Chapter 3
PHI 3:1
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
To write the same things again is no trouble
to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
PHI 3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of
the evil workers, beware of the false
circumcision;
PHI 3:3 for we are the true
circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of
God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no
confidence in the flesh,
PHI 3:4 although I myself might have
confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else
has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I
far more:
PHI 3:5 circumcised the eighth day,
of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the
Law, a Pharisee;
PHI 3:6 as to zeal, a persecutor of
the church; as to the righteousness which is
in the Law, found blameless.
PHI 3:7 But whatever things were gain
to me, those things I have counted as loss
for the sake of Christ.
PHI 3:8 More than that, I count all
things to be loss in view of the surpassing
value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for
whom I have suffered the loss of all things,
and count them but rubbish in order that I
may gain Christ,
PHI 3:9 and may be found in Him, not
having a righteousness of my own derived
from the Law, but that which is through
faith in Christ, the righteousness which
comes from God on the basis of faith,
PHI 3:10 that I may know Him, and the
power of His resurrection and the fellowship
of His sufferings, being conformed to His
death;
PHI 3:11 in order that I may attain
to the resurrection from the dead.
PHI 3:12 Not that I have already
obtained it, or have already become perfect,
but I press on in order that I may lay hold
of that for which also I was laid hold of by
Christ Jesus.
PHI 3:13 Brethren, I do not regard
myself as having laid hold of it yet; but
one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind
and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
PHI 3:14 I press on toward the goal
for the prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus.
PHI 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as
are perfect, have this attitude; and if in
anything you have a different attitude, God
will reveal that also to you;
PHI 3:16 however, let us keep living
by that same standard to which we have
attained.
PHI 3:17 Brethren, join in following
my example, and observe those who walk
according to the pattern you have in us.
PHI 3:18 For many walk, of whom I
often told you, and now tell you even
weeping, that they are enemies of the cross
of Christ,
PHI 3:19 whose end is destruction,
whose god is their appetite, and whose glory
is in their shame, who set their minds on
earthly things.
PHI 3:20 For our citizenship is in
heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for
a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
PHI 3:21 who will transform the body
of our humble state into conformity with the
body of His glory, by the exertion of the
power that He has even to subject all things
to Himself.
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Chapter 4
PHI 4:1
Therefore, my beloved brethren whom I long
to see, my joy and crown, so stand firm in
the Lord, my beloved.
PHI 4:2 I urge Euodia and I urge
Syntyche to live in harmony in the Lord.
PHI 4:3 Indeed, true comrade, I ask
you also to help these women who have shared
my struggle in the cause of the gospel,
together with Clement also, and the rest of
my fellow workers, whose names are in the
book of life.
PHI 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always;
again I will say, rejoice!
PHI 4:5 Let your forbearing spirit be
known to all men. The Lord is near.
PHI 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but
in everything by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests be made
known to God.
PHI 4:7 And the peace of God, which
surpasses all comprehension, shall guard
your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
PHI 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever
is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is
right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is of good repute, if there is any
excellence and if anything worthy of praise,
let your mind dwell on these things.
PHI 4:9 The things you have learned
and received and heard and seen in me,
practice these things; and the God of peace
shall be with you.
PHI 4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord
greatly, that now at last you have revived
your concern for me; indeed, you were
concerned before, but you lacked
opportunity.
PHI 4:11 Not that I speak from want;
for I have learned to be content in whatever
circumstances I am.
PHI 4:12 I know how to get along with
humble means, and I also know how to live in
prosperity; in any and every circumstance I
have learned the secret of being filled and
going hungry, both of having abundance and
suffering need.
PHI 4:13 I can do all things through
Him who strengthens me.
PHI 4:14 Nevertheless, you have done
well to share with me in my affliction.
PHI 4:15 And you yourselves also
know, Philippians, that at the first
preaching of the gospel, after I departed
from Macedonia, no church shared with me in
the matter of giving and receiving but you
alone;
PHI 4:16 for even in Thessalonica you
sent a gift more than once for my needs.
PHI 4:17 Not that I seek the gift
itself, but I seek for the profit which
increases to your account.
PHI 4:18 But I have received
everything in full, and have an abundance; I
am amply supplied, having received from
Epaphroditus what you have sent, a fragrant
aroma, an acceptable sacrifice,
well-pleasing to God.
PHI 4:19 And my God shall supply all
your needs according to His riches in glory
in Christ Jesus.
PHI 4:20 Now to our God and Father be
the glory forever and ever. Amen.
PHI 4:21 Greet every saint in Christ
Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet
you.
PHI 4:22 All the saints greet you,
especially those of Caesar's household.
PHI 4:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ be with your spirit.
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