Most Popular Bible Verses in Philippians
-
Chapter
Philippians Rank:
Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God:
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things:
Being persuaded of this very thing, that he who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ,
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
If there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies; Fulfil ye my joy,
And my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory through Christ Jesus.
Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind, esteem each the others better than themselves.
who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons,
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above every name,
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death:
For it is God that worketh in you according to his good pleasure, both to will and to do.
of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews, touching the law, a Pharisee; Touching zeal,
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected: but I pursue, if I may apprehend that, for which I was also apprehended by Christ Jesus.
Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, to be content.
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Christ Jesus, to the glory and praise of God.
Yea doubtless, and I account all things to be loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do account them but dung,
Only let your behaviour be worthy the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear concerning you, that ye stand fast, in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more, in all knowledge and in all spiritual sense,
That ye may try the things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ,
That at the name of Jesus every knee might bow, of those in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth:
But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Yet emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
So that my bonds in Christ have been made manifest in the whole palace, and to all others:
persecuting the church, touching the righteousness, which is by the law, blameless.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful; but ye lacked opportunity.
And many of the brethren trusting in the Lord through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word without fear.
For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, for it is far better.
Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things concerning me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel:
Brethren, be ye followers together of me, and mark them who walk so as ye have us for an example.
Who will transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, acccording to the mighty working, whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.
The one preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
This also is of God. For to you it is given, with regard to Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him:
that I may gain Christ, And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not tedious to me, and it is safe for you.
beware of the concision, For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
What then? still every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
That ye may be blameless and simple, the sons of God, unrebukable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,
But if I am to live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour, and what I should chuse, I know not.
But to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.
And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith:
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation.
That your rejoicing for me may abound through Christ Jesus, by my presence with you again.
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
But whereunto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
And ye know likewise, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated to me in respect of giving and receiving but you only.
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.
For the same cause joy ye likewise, and rejoice with me.
But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received of Epaphroditus the things which came from you, an odour of a sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.
But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.
Amen. Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me salute you.
But I trust in the Lord, that I also myself shall come shortly.
He was indeed sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
I have sent him therefore the more willingly, that ye seeing him again may rejoice, and that I also may be the less sorrowful.
Therefore, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
For I know that this shall turn to my salvation, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ:
I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound, every where and in every thing I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to want.
According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
Though I might have confidence: if any man think that he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day,
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction,
And I intreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, help those women who laboured together with me in the gospel, with both Clement and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.
that ye think the same thing, having the same love, being of one soul, of one mind.
Some indeed preach Christ even through envy and strife; but some through good will.
And every tongue might confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.
Now I trust in the Lord Jesus, to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged, when I know your state.
As it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, who were all partakers of my grace, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel.
Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my need.
Which also ye have learned and received, and heard and seen in me; these do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, to supply your deficiency of service toward me.