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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 defence 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
 defence 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
 labour: 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.
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 Fulfil 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 laboured 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 labour, and fellowsoldier, 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.
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,