Though I might have confidence: if any man think that he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day,

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:

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death:

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.

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.

(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,

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.

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.

Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, to be content.

Nevertheless ye have done well, that ye did communicate to me in my affliction.

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.

Not that I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of C?sar's houshold.

For this cause from the day we heard it, we do not cease to pray also for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

That ye may walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

For through him were created all things, that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible; whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by him and for him.

who is the beginning, the first-begotten from the dead, that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.

For it pleased the Father, that all fulness should dwell in him:

And you that were once alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works,

If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and are not removed from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard, which is preached to every creature that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ for his body, which is the church:

Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, that we may present every man perfect through Christ Jesus.

That their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, even unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the acknowledgment of the mystery of God,

And this I say, that no man may beguile you with inticing words.

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him:

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance;

But he that doth wrong, shall receive for the wrong he hath done; and there is no respect of persons.

Masters, give your servants that which is just and equitable, knowing that ye also have a master in heaven.

Withal, praying likewise for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ: for which I am also in bonds:

That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one.

Whom I have sent to you for this very thing, that he might know your state and comfort your hearts,

With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you: they will make known to you all things that are done here.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayer, that ye may stand, perfect and filled, with all the will of God.

For I bear him witness, that he hath a great zeal for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

And say to Archippus, Take heed that thou fulfil the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord.

So that ye became examples to all that believed in Macedonia and Achaia.

For from you the word of the Lord sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith toward God went abroad in every place also, so that we need not speak any thing.

For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it was not in vain: But even after we had suffered before,

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

Ye are witnesses and God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved among you that believe:

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, even because when ye received the word of God from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, who likewise effectually worketh in you that believe.

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: but wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

That no one might be moved by these afflictions; for ye know that we are appointed hereto.

But now when Timotheus was come to us from you, and had brought us the good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, as we also to see you:

Night and day praying exceedingly, that we may see your face, and perfect that which is wanting in your faith.

That he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness (before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ) with all his saints.

It remaineth then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye abound therein more and more.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

That none circumvent or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have also told you before and testified.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man but God; who hath also given you his Holy Spirit.

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, that ye increase more and more,

And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you;

That ye may walk decently toward them that are without, and may want nothing.

Now we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

For if we believe, that Jesus died and rose again, so will God bring with him those also that sleep in Christ.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep.

But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write to you.

For ye yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

Now we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labour among you,

See that none render to any man evil for evil, but ever follow that which is good, both to one another and to all men.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

I charge you by the Lord, that this epistle be read to all the brethren.

So that we ourselves glory of you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and sufferings which ye endure:

A manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be accounted, worthy of the kingdom of God; for which also ye suffer.

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God, to recompence affliction to them that afflict you.

And to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believe (now that our testimony was believed among you) in that day.

To this end we pray always for you, that our God would make you worthy of this calling, and fulfill in you all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power;

That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind or terrified, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God as God, declaring himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that I told you these things, when I was yet with you?

And now ye know that which with-holdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only he that with-holdeth will with-hold, till he be taken out of the way.

And then will that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming:

And with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, so that that they shall believe a lie,

That they all may be condemned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as among you:

And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all men have not faith.

And we trust in the Lord concerning you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received of us.

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but wrought with labour and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

Not because we have not power; but that we might make ourselves an example to you, that ye might imitate us.

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

As I exhorted thee when I was going into Macedonia, abide at Ephesus; that thou mayest charge some to teach no other doctrine, Neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies,

that afford questions, and not godly edifying, which is through faith.

Knowing this, that the law doth not lie against a righteous man; but against the lawless and disobedient, against the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and prophane, against killers of their fathers or their mothers, against murderers,

Against whoremongers, sodomites, man-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to wholesome doctrine,

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, in that he accounted me faithful,

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.