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But that ye also may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in 22 the Lord, shall make known to you all things: whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.

23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from 24 God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in uncorruptness.

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE

TO THE

PHILIPPIANS.

1 Gr. bond

servants.

2 Or, overseers.

8 Or, ye

have me in

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PAUL and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all 1 the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the 2 bishops and deacons: Grace to you and peace 2 from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you, 3 always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you 4 all making my supplication with joy, for your fellow- 5 ship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now; being confident of this very thing, that he 6 which began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ: even as it is right for me to 7 be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have your heart. you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace. For God is my wit- 8 ness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. And this I pray, that your love may 9 abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; so that ye may approve the things that 10 are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ; being filled with the 11 Gr. fruil. 5 fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Or, prove

the things

that differ.

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Now I would have you know, brethren, that the 12 things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel; so that my bonds 13 Gr. in the became manifest in Christ throughout the whole prætorian guard, and to all the rest; and that most 14 Gr. trust of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through ing in my bonds. my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear. Some indeed preach Christ 15 even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

whole Protorium.

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16 the one do it of love, knowing that I am set for the 17 defence of the gospel: but the other proclaim Christ

of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction 18 for me in my bonds. What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. 19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation,

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1

to live in the

the lot, this is the fruit of far my work:

and what I shall choose

through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit 20 of Jesus Christ, according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, 21 or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die 22 is gain. 1 But if to live in the flesh, if this is the1 Or, But if fruit of my work, then what I shall choose I wot flesh be my 23 not. But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very 24 better yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for 25 your sake. And having this confidence, I know that I wot not. I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your shall I 26 progress and joy in the faith; that your glorying choose? abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence may 27 with you again. Only let your manner of life be known. worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I comeOr, and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving 28 for the faith of the gospel; and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that 29 from God; because to you it hath been granted in the

behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also 30 to suffer in his behalf having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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2 Or, what

3 Or, I do not make

of faith.

Gr. behave

as citizens worthily.

Gr. with.

If there is therefore any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if 2 any tender mercies and compassions, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being 3 of one accord, of one mind; doing nothing through 7 Some faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind authorities 4 each counting other better than himself; not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to

ancient

read of the sume mind.

1 Gr. being
originally.
2 Gr. a thing
to be
grasped.

3 Gr. bond-
servant.

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the things of others. Have this mind in you, which 5 was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of 6 God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a 3 ser- 7 vant, being made in the likeness of men; and being 8 found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becomGr. becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the ing in. cross. Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and 9 gave unto him the name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 10 Or, things of things in heaven and things on earth and 5 things below. under the earth, and that every tongue should con- 11 fess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

of the world

• Some ancient

omit as.

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, 12 not as in my presence only, but now much more in authorities my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you 13 both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. Do 14 all things without murmurings and disputings; that 15 ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life; that I 16 may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labour in vain. if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all: and in the same 18 manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.

7 Gr. luminaries.

8 Gr. poured out as a drink offering.

9 Gr. genuinely.

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Yea, and 17

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy 19 shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. For I have no man like- 20 minded, who will care truly for your state. For they 21 all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth 22 a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so 23 soon as I shall see how it will go with me: but I trust 24 in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly. But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphrodi- 25 tus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier,

2 Many

authorities read to see

you all.

26 and your messenger and minister to my need; since 1 Gr. he longed 2 after you all, and was sore troubled, be- apostle. 27 cause ye had heard that he was sick for indeed he ancient was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I 28 might not have sorrow upon sorrow. I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sor29 rowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all 30 joy; and hold such in honour: because for the work

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ancient

of 3 Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life & Many to supply that which was lacking in your service to- authorities ward me.

read the Lord.

To Or,

seemeth.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irk- farewell. 2 some, but for you it is safe. Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision: 3 for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no con4 fidence in the flesh: though I myself might have condence even in the flesh if any other man 5 thinketh 5 Or, 5 to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touch6 ing the law, a Pharisee; as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in 7 the law, found blameless. Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. Gr. gains. 8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do 9 count them but 'dung, that I may gain Christ, and be 7 Or, refuse. found in him, not having a righteousness of mine Or, not having as own, even that which is of the law, but that which is my rightthrough faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of that which 10 God by faith: that I may know him, and the power is of the of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffer- Gr. upon. 11 ings, becoming conformed unto his death; if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the 12 dead. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I

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eousness

law.

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