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{\MTB THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE

\par }{\MTC TO THE

\par }{\MT PHILIPPIANS.



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\MM \VerseOne{1}{\SC{Paul}} and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

\VS{2}grace
{\ADD{be}} unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and
{\ADD{from}} the Lord Jesus Christ.


\par }{\PP \VS{3}I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

\VS{4}always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

\VS{5}for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

\VS{6}being confident of this very
{\ADD{thing}}, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform
{\ADD{it}} until the day of Jesus Christ:

\VS{7}even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in
{\ADD{my}} heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and
{\ADD{in}} the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

\VS{8}For God is my record, how
{\ADD{greatly}} I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

\VS{9}And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and
{\ADD{in}} all judgment;

\VS{10}that ye may approve
{\ADD{things}} that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

\VS{11}being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the
{\ADD{things which happened}} unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

\VS{13}so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and
{\ADD{in}} all other
{\ADD{places;}}

\VS{14}and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

\VS{15}Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

\VS{16}the one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

\VS{17}but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

\VS{18}What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

\VS{19}For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

\VS{20}according to my earnest expectation and
{\ADD{my}} hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but
{\ADD{that}} with all boldness, as always,
{\ADD{so}} now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether
{\ADD{it be}} by life, or by death.

\VS{21}For to me to live
{\ADD{is}} Christ, and to die
{\ADD{is}} gain.

\VS{22}But if
{\ADD{I}} live in the flesh, this
{\ADD{is}} the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

\VS{23}For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ;
{\ADD{which is}} far better:

\VS{24}nevertheless to abide in the flesh
{\ADD{is}} more needful for you.

\VS{25}And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

\VS{26}that your rejoicing may be
{\ADD{more}} abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.


\par }{\PP \VS{27}Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or
{\ADD{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;

\VS{28}and in nothing terrified by
{\ADD{your}} adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

\VS{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;

\VS{30}having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear
{\ADD{to be}} in me.




\Chap{2}\VerseOne{1}If
{\ADD{there be}} therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

\VS{2}fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love,
{\ADD{being}} of one accord, of one mind.

\VS{3}{\ADD{Let}} nothing
{\ADD{be done}} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind
{\ADD{let}} each esteem other better than themselves.

\VS{4}Look not every man on his own
{\ADD{things}}, but every man also on the
{\ADD{things}} of others.

\VS{5}Let this mind be in you, which
{\ADD{was}} also in Christ Jesus:

\VS{6}who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

\VS{7}but made himself of no reputation, and took
{\ADD{upon him}} the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

\VS{8}and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

\VS{9}Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

\VS{10}that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
{\ADD{things}} in heaven, and
{\ADD{things}} in earth, and
{\ADD{things}} under the earth;

\VS{11}and
{\ADD{that}} every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
{\ADD{is}} Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

\VS{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.

\VS{13}For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
{\ADD{his}} good pleasure.

\VS{14}Do all
{\ADD{things}} without murmurings and disputings:

\VS{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;

\VS{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.

\VS{17}Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

\VS{18}{\ADD{For}} the same
{\ADD{cause}} also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.


\par }{\PP \VS{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.

\VS{20}For I have no
{\ADD{man}} likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

\VS{21}For all seek their own, not the
{\ADD{things which are}} Jesus Christ’s.

\VS{22}But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son
{\ADD{with the}} father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

\VS{23}Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

\VS{24}But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

\VS{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.

\VS{26}For he longed after you all, and
{\ADD{was}} full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

\VS{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.

\VS{28}I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and
{\ADD{that}} I may be the less sorrowful.

\VS{29}Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

\VS{30}because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding
{\ADD{his}} life, to supply your lack of service toward me.




\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
{\ADD{things}} to you, to me indeed
{\ADD{is}} not grievous, but for you
{\ADD{it is}} safe.

\VS{2}Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

\VS{3}For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

\VS{4}Though I
{\ADD{might}} also have confidence in the flesh. If any other
{\ADD{man}} thinketh that
{\ADD{he hath whereof he}} might trust in the flesh, I more:

\VS{5}circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

\VS{6}concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

\VS{7}But what
{\ADD{things}} were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

\VS{8}Yea doubtless, and I count all
{\ADD{things but}} loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all
{\ADD{things}}, and do count
{\ADD{them but}} dung, that I may win Christ,

\VS{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:

\VS{10}that
{\ADD{I}} may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

\VS{11}if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

\VS{12}Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow
{\ADD{after}}, if that I may apprehend
{\ADD{that}} for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

\VS{13}Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but
{\ADD{this}} one
{\ADD{thing I do}}, forgetting those
{\ADD{things which are}} behind, and reaching forth unto those
{\ADD{things which are}} before,

\VS{14}I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

\VS{15}Let us therefore, as many as
{\ADD{be}} perfect, be thus minded: and if in any
{\ADD{thing}} ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

\VS{16}Nevertheless, whereto we have
{\ADD{already}} attained,
{\ADD{let us}} walk by the same rule,
{\ADD{let us}} mind the same
{\ADD{thing}}.


\par }{\PP \VS{17}Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

\VS{18}(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell
{\ADD{you}} even weeping,
{\ADD{that they are}} the enemies of the cross of Christ:

\VS{19}whose end
{\ADD{is}} destruction, whose God
{\ADD{is their}} belly, and
{\ADD{whose}} glory
{\ADD{is}} in their shame, who mind earthly
{\ADD{things}}.)

\VS{20}For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

\VS{21}who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all
{\ADD{things}} unto himself.




\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord,
{\ADD{my}} dearly beloved.

\VS{2}I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that
{\ADD{they}} be of the same mind in the Lord.

\VS{3}And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those
{\ADD{women}} which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and
{\ADD{with}} other my fellowlabourers, whose names
{\ADD{are}} in the book of life.


\par }{\PP \VS{4}Rejoice in the Lord alway:
{\ADD{and}} again I say, Rejoice.

\VS{5}Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord
{\ADD{is}} at hand.

\VS{6}Be careful for nothing; but in every
{\ADD{thing}} by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

\VS{7}And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

\VS{8}Finally, brethren, whatsoever
{\ADD{things}} are true, whatsoever
{\ADD{things are}} honest, whatsoever
{\ADD{things are}} just, whatsoever
{\ADD{things are}} pure, whatsoever
{\ADD{things are}} lovely, whatsoever
{\ADD{things are}} of good report; if
{\ADD{there be}} any virtue, and if
{\ADD{there be}} any praise, think on these
{\ADD{things}}.

\VS{9}Those
{\ADD{things}}, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.


\par }{\PP \VS{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.

\VS{11}Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever
{\ADD{state}} I am,
{\ADD{therewith}} to be content.

\VS{12}I know both
{\ADD{how}} to be abased, and I know
{\ADD{how}} to abound: every where and in all
{\ADD{things}} I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

\VS{13}I can do all
{\ADD{things}} through Christ which strengtheneth me.

\VS{14}Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

\VS{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.

\VS{16}For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

\VS{17}Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that
{\ADD{may}} abound to your account.

\VS{18}But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the
{\ADD{things which were sent}} from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

\VS{19}But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

\VS{20}Now unto God and our Father
{\ADD{be}} glory for ever and ever. Amen.


\par }{\PP \VS{21}Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.

\VS{22}All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Cesar’s household.

\VS{23}The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
{\ADD{be}} with you all. Amen.

\par }{\BB \par }
{\MI ¶ It was written to the Philippians from Rome by Epaphroditus.


\par }