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The next file is: PHILIPPIANS
1:1 Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the
 saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops
 and deacons:
1:2 Grace [be] to 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 who 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 defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are
 partakers of my grace.
1:8 For God is my witness, 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 offense till the day of Christ;
1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by
 Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things
 [which happened] to me have fallen out rather to 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, becoming confident by
 my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife; and
 some also from good will.
1:16 The one preach Christ from contention, not sincerely,
 supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
1:17 But the other from love, knowing that I am set for the
 defense of the gospel.
1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense
 or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yes,
 and will rejoice.
1:19 For I know that this will turn to my salvation through your
 prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
1:20 According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in
 nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as
 always, [so] now also, Christ will be magnified in my body,
 whether 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
 labor: yet what I shall choose I know 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 for me may be more abundant in Jesus
 Christ by my coming to you again.
1:27 Only let your manner of life 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 from God.
1:29 For to 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 is] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
 comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels
 and mercies,
2:2 Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same
 love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.
2:3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vain glory; 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 to 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] on 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 who 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 labored in
 vain.
2:17 And if I am even 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 Timothy shortly to
 you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your
 state.
2:20 For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for
 your state.
2:21 For all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
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 labor, and fellow-soldier, but your
 messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness,
 because ye had heard that he was sick.
2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh to 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 speedily, 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 to death, not
 regarding his life, to supply the want of your service towards
 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, who 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 reason to trust in the flesh, I
 more:
3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the
 tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; with respect to the
 law, a Pharisee;
3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to the
 righteousness which is by the law, blameless.
3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for
 Christ.
3:8 Yes doubtless, and I count all things [to be] loss for the
 excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I
 have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [to be]
 dung, that I may win Christ,
3:9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which
 is from the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ,
 the righteousness which is from God by faith:
3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and
 the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his
 death;
3:11 If by any means I may attain to the resurrection of the
 dead.
3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already
 perfect: but I pursue, if that I may apprehend that for which
 also I am apprehended by Christ Jesus.
3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but
 [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are
 behind, and reaching forward to those things which are before,
3:14 I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling
 of God in Christ Jesus.
3:15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded:
 and if in any thing ye are otherwise minded, God will reveal
 even this to you.
3:16 Nevertheless, to what we have already attained, let us walk
 by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them who
 walk so as ye have us for an example.
3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell
 you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of
 Christ:
3:19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and
 [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look
 for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:
3:21 Who will change our vile body, that it may be fashioned
 like to his glorious body, according to the working by which he
 is able even to subdue all things to himself.
4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy
 and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved.
4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the
 same mind in the Lord.
4:3 And I entreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, help those women
 who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and
 [with] other my fellow-laborers, whose names [are] in the book
 of life.
4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: [and] again I say, Rejoice.
4:5 Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord [is] at
 hand.
4:6 Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
 supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
 to God.
4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will
 keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things
 [are] honest, whatever things [are] just, whatever things [are]
 pure, whatever things [are] lovely, whatever things [are] of
 good report; if [there is] any virtue, and if [there is] any
 praise, think on these things.
4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and
 heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace will be with
 you.
4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last
 your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also
 careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in
 whatever state I am, [with that] to be content.
4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound:
 every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full
 and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.
4:14 Notwithstanding ye have done well, that ye did communicate
 with my affliction.
4:15 Now, ye Philippians, know also, that in the beginning of
 the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church
 communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye
 only.
4:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my
 necessity.
4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may
 abound to your account.
4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received from
 Epaphroditus the things [which were sent] from you, an odor of
 a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
4:19 But my God will supply all your need according to his
 riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
4:20 Now to God and our Father [be] glory for ever and ever.
 Amen.
4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are
 with me greet you.
4:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Cesar's
 household.
4:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.