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Be anxious in nothing: but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known before God.
Finally my brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are venerable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are friendly, whatever things are reputable, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think of these things:
being confident of this, that He who hath begun a good work in you will continue to perfect it till the day of Jesus Christ.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed the gospel, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence; be still working out your own salvation though with fear and trembling:
If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit,
And my God will supply all your wants, according to his riches, in glory, by Christ Jesus.
Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind each esteeming others better than themselves.
from whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ: who will change our vile body,
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: and if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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 both to will, and to work, out of his own good-pleasure.
having been circumcised on the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of Hebrews, with respect to the law a pharisee,
in every prayer of mine) for your attachment to the gospel, from the first day even till now;
not that I have yet won the prize, or am already perfect: but I press forward to acquire that perfection, for which also I have been apprehended by Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to those before,
Not that I speak on account of want; for I have learnt in whatever circumstances I am, to be contented.
For God is my witness, how much I long for you all, as with the bowels of Jesus Christ.
being full of the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God.
Yea doubtless and I count all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and I account them but dung, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him,
Only behave worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of you, that ye stand firm in one Spirit, striving together as with one soul for the saith of the gospel;
And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all discernment;
that ye may try things that differ, that ye may be sincere and without offence until the day of Christ;
that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of celestial beings, as well as of those on earth, and of those under the earth;
Yet He emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, when made in the likeness of men:
so that my bonds are manifest in all the palace, and all other places, to be for the sake of Christ;
as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the law blameless: but those things,
and being in the human state, He humbled himself, and was obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.
Look not every one to his own interests only, but every one also to the concerns of others.
I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that your care for me has now flourished again; for whom ye were indeed careful before, but ye wanted opportunity.
and many of the brethren in the Lord, encouraged by my bonds, are much more bold to publish the word without fear.
for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is much preferable:
But I would have you know, my brethren, that the things, which have befallen me, have proved rather to the advancement of the gospel:
Brethren, be imitators of me, and observe those that walk as ye have us for an example.
that it may be made like his glorious body, according to the energy of his ability to subdue all things to Himself.
the former preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, thinking to add affliction to my bonds;
For to you it is granted as a favor from Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for his sake:
not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is by the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him,
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and for you it is safe.
For we are of the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh.
What then? yet every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached: and in this I rejoice, yea and I will rejoice;
that ye may be blameless and inoffensive, the children of God without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as lights in the world,
but to abide in the flesh is more necessary for you.
And as I am confident of this, I know that I shall abide and shall continue with you all, for your improvement and the joy of your faith:
and are in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is a demonstration of ruin to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.
that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may abound through me, by my coming to you again.
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, attend to this: and if in any thing ye think differently, God will reveal this also unto you.
But in what we have attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
And ye Philippians know, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I was departing from Macedonia, no church communicated to me on the score of giving and receiving, but you only.
But if I be even poured forth as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all.
And for the same cause do ye also rejoice, and congratulate with me.
And indeed I have it all, and now abound: I am fully supplied, having received of Epaphroditus the things sent by you, a fragrant odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel.
for he much longed after you all, and was greatly concerned because ye had heard that he was sick.
For I have no one of a like spirit, who will with a kind of natural affection take care of your affairs.
But I trust in the Lord, that I shall soon come myself too.
For indeed he was sick and nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
I have sent him therefore the more desirously, that when ye see him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.
Wherefore, my brethren, beloved and much desired, my joy and crown, so stand ye fast in the Lord, my beloved.
for I know that this shall turn to my safety through your prayer, and the aid of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
I know both how to be abased, and how to abound: in every place, and in all conditions I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, to abound and to be in want.
According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be put to shame in nothing; but that with all freedom of speech, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks he hath whereof to trust in the flesh, I more:
Beware of those that are like dogs, beware of evil doers, beware of the concision.
(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: whose end is destruction,
And I entreat thee likewise, my faithful collegue, to assist them, for they laboured with me in the gospel, and Clement also, and my other fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
if any bowels of compassion, compleat ye my joy, be like-minded, maintaining the same love, with your souls united, in attending to the one thing needful.
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, by knowing the state of your affairs.
As it is just for me to think this of you all, because ye have me in your heart, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, being all of you partakers of the same grace with me.
However, I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother, and fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, who ministred to my wants:
and what ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these practise; and the God of peace will be with you.
whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven,
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, so that he might fill up what was wanting in your kind offices towards me.