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Paul
and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at
Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church: |
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Grace
to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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I
give praise to my God at every memory of you, |
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And
in all my prayers for you all, making my request with joy, |
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Because
of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now; |
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For
I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in
you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ: |
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So
it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have
you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in
support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your
part with me in grace. |
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For
God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of
Christ Jesus. |
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And
my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and
experience; |
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So
that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be True and
without wrongdoing till the day of Christ; |
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Being
full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the
glory and praise of God. |
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Now
it is my purpose to make clear to you, brothers, that the cause of the good
news has been helped by my experiences; |
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So
that it became clear through all the Praetorium, and to all the rest, that I
was a prisoner on account of Christ; |
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And
most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all
the stronger to give the word of God without fear. |
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Though
some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a
good heart: |
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These
do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good
news: |
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But
those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts,
but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison. |
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What
then? only that in every way, falsely or truly, the preaching of Christ goes
on; and in this I am glad, and will be glad. |
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For
I am conscious that this will be for my salvation, through your prayer and
the giving out of the stored wealth of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, |
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In
the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to
shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory
in my body, by life or by death. |
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For
to me life is Christ and death is profit. |
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But
if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do
not see what decision to make. |
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I
am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with
Christ, which is very much better: |
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Still,
to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you. |
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And
being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with
you all, for your growth and joy in the faith; |
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So
that your pride in me may be increased in Christ Jesus through my being
present with you again. |
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Only
let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come
and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are
strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the
good news; |
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Having
no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their
destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God; |
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Because
to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in
him, but to undergo pain on his account: |
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Fighting
the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me. |
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If
then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of
hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity, |
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Make
my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in
harmony and of one mind; |
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Doing
nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let
everyone take others to be better than himself; |
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Not
looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of
others. |
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Let this mind be
in you which was in Christ Jesus, |
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To
whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for
oneself was to be like God; |
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But
he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like
men; |
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And
being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put
to death, even the death of the cross. |
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For
this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the
name which is greater than every name; |
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So
that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and
those on earth and those in the underworld, |
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And
that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the Father. |
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So
then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when
I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to
working out your salvation with fear in your hearts; |
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For
it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good
pleasure. |
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Do
all things without protests and arguments; |
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So
that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and
foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, |
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Offering
the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ,
because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without
effect. |
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And
even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and
work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all: |
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And in
the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy. |
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But
I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I
may be comforted when I have news of you. |
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For
I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you. |
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For
they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ. |
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But
his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a
help to me in the work of the good news. |
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Him
then I am hoping to send as quickly as possible, when I am able to see how
things will go for me: |
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But
I have faith in the Lord that I myself will come before long. |
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But
it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has
taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by
you for help in my need; |
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Because
his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news
that he was ill: |
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For
in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on
him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief. |
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I
have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may
be happy and I may have the less sorrow. |
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So
take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as
he is: |
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Because
for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to
make your care for me complete. |
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For
the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is
no trouble to me, and for you it is safe. |
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Be
on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the
circumcision: |
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For
we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus
Christ, and have no faith in the flesh: |
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Even
though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to
have faith in the flesh, I have more: |
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Being
given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe
of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee: |
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In
bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the
law to the last detail. |
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But
those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ. |
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Yes
truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all
things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my
reward, |
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And
be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that
which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by
faith: |
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That
I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the
dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death; |
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If in any
way I may have the reward of life from the dead. |
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Not
as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the
hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the
servant of Christ Jesus. |
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Brothers,
it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do,
letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things
which are before, |
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I
go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ
Jesus. |
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Then
let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything
you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you: |
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Only,
as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule. |
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Brothers,
take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the
example we have given. |
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For
there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with
sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ; |
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Whose
end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their
shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth. |
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For
our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will
come, even the Lord Jesus Christ: |
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By
whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his
glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things
under himself. |
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So
my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in
the Lord, my loved ones. |
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I
make request to Euodias and Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. |
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And
I make request to you, True helper in my work, to see to the needs of those
women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my
brother-workers whose names are in the book of life. |
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Be glad in
the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad. |
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Let
your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near. |
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Have
no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before
God. |
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And
the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts
and minds in Christ Jesus. |
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For
the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour,
whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are
beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there
is any praise, give thought to these things. |
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The
things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in
me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you. |
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But
I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again;
though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give
effect to it. |
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But
I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be
dependent on myself. |
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It
is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all
things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to
have wealth and how to be in need. |
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I am
able to do all things through him who gives me strength. |
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But
you did well to have care for me in my need. |
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And
you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you,
when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business
of giving to the saints, but you only; |
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Because
even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need. |
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Not
that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your
credit. |
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I
have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from
Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an
offering well pleasing to God. |
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And
my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in
Christ Jesus. |
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Now to
God our Father be glory for ever and ever. So be it. |
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Give
words of love to every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me
send you their love. |
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All
the saints send their love to you, specially those who are of Caesar's
house. |
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The grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. |
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