1Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus
Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are
at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
2Grace be unto
you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ.
3I thank my God upon every remembrance of
you,
4Always in every prayer of mine for you all
making request with joy,
5For your fellowship in the gospel from the
first day until now;
6Being confident of this very thing, that he
which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ:
7Even 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.
8For God is my record, how greatly I long
after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9And this I pray, that your love may abound
yet more and more in knowledge and in all
judgment;
10That ye may approve things that are
excellent; that ye may be sincere and without
offence till the day of Christ;
11Being filled with the fruits of
righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the
glory and praise of God.
12But I would ye should understand, brethren,
that the things which
happened unto me have fallen out rather unto
the furtherance of the gospel;
13So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in
all the palace, and in all other places;
14And many of the brethren in the Lord,
waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to
speak the word without fear.
15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and
strife; and some also of good will:
16The one preach Christ of contention, not
sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
17But the other of love, knowing that I am
set for the defence of the gospel.
18What then? notwithstanding, every way,
whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is
preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will
rejoice.
19For I know that this shall turn to my
salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the
Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20According 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.
21For to me to live is Christ,
and to die is gain.
22But if I live in the flesh, this is the
fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot
not.
23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a
desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is
far better:
24Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more
needful for you.
25And having this confidence, I know that I
shall abide and continue with you all for your
furtherance and joy of faith;
26That your rejoicing may be more abundant in
Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
27Only 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;
28And in nothing terrified by your
adversaries: which is to them an evident token of
perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
29For unto you it is given in the behalf of
Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to
suffer for his sake;
30Having the same conflict which ye saw in
me, and now hear to
be in me.
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