Ye of Philippi know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no congregation bare part with me as concerning giving and receiving but ye only.

And you - which were in times past strangers and enemies, because your minds were set in evil works - hath he now reconciled

Now joy I in my sufferings which I suffer, for you; and fulfill that which is behind of the passions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the congregation -

that mystery, hid since the world began, and since the beginning of generations: But now is opened to his saints,

I would ye knew what fighting I have for your sakes, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my person in the flesh,

that their hearts might be comforted and knit together in love, and in all riches of full understanding, for to know the mystery of God the father and of Christ:

Let no man therefore trouble your consciences about meat and drink: or for a piece of a holy day, as the holy day of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day:

Let no man make you shoot at a wrong mark, which after his own imagination walketh in the humbleness and holiness of angels, things which he never saw: causeless, puffed up with his fleshly mind,

which things have the similitude of wisdom in chosen holiness, and humbleness, and in that they spare not the body - and do the flesh no worship unto his need.

But now put ye also away from you all things; wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths.

and the new put on; which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that made him:

Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering,

forasmuch as ye know that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

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

Ye masters do unto your servants that which is just and equal, seeing ye know that ye have also a master in heaven.

Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.

whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know how ye do, and might comfort your hearts,

because we know brethren beloved of God, how that ye are elect.

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and also in the holy ghost and in much certainty, as ye know after what manner we behaved ourselves among you, for your sakes.

For ye yourselves brethren know of our entrance in unto you, how that it was not in vain:

but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated at Philippi - as ye well know - then were we bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God, with much striving.

Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words - as ye well know - neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record:

as ye know how that we exhorted and comforted, and besought every one of you, as a father his children,

Wherefore, since we could no longer forbear, it pleased us to remain at Athens alone,

that no man should be moved in these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are even appointed thereunto.

For verily when I was with you, I told you before that we should suffer tribulation even as it came to pass, and as ye know.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent that I might have knowledge of your faith, lest haply the tempter had tempted you, and that our labour had been bestowed in vain.

But now lately when Timothy came from you unto us and declared to us your faith, and your love, and how that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we desire to see you.

For now are we alive if ye stand steadfast in the Lord.

that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour,

and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the heathen, which know not God,

that no man go too far and defraud his brother in bargaining, because the Lord is avenger of all such things: as we told you before time, and testified unto you.

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope.

Of the times and seasons brethren ye have no need that I write unto you:

for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night.

For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

We beseech you brethren, that ye know them which labour among you, and have the oversight of you in the Lord,

in flaming fire, rendering vengeance unto them that know not God, and to them that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Let no man deceive you by any means, for the Lord cometh not, except there come a departing first, and that that sinful man be opened, the son of perdition;

And now ye know what withholdeth: even that he might be uttered at his time.

Ye yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: For we behaved not ourselves inordinately among you.

We have heard say, no doubt, that there are some which walk among you inordinately, and work not at all, but are busybodies.

If any man obey not our sayings, send us word of him by a letter: and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed:

As I besought thee to abide still in Ephesus when I departed into Macedonia; even so, do: that thou command some that they teach no other wise,

We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,

And without nay, great is that mystery of godliness. God was showed in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen of angels, was preached unto the gentiles, was believed on in earth and received up in glory.

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: But godliness is good unto all things, as a thing which hath promises of the life that is now, and of the life to come.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be unto them that believe, an example: in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith and in pureness.

Let no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: Keep thyself pure.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine, for thy stomach's sake, and thine often diseases.

which only hath immortality, and dwelleth in light that no man can attain, whom never man saw, neither can see: unto whom be honour and rule everlasting. Amen.

but is now declared openly by the appearing of our saviour Jesus Christ, which hath put away death, and hath brought life and immortality unto light through the gospel,

for the which cause I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and am sure that he is able keep that which I have committed to his keeping against that day.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with worldly business; and that, because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Of these things put them in remembrance, and testify before the Lord, that they strive not about words, which is to no profit, but to pervert the hearers.

and one that can suffer the evil in meekness, and can inform them that resist - if that God at any time will give them repentance for to know the truth -

that they may come to themselves again out of the snare of the devil, which are now taken of him at his will.

but they shall prevail no longer. For their madness shall be uttered unto all men as theirs was.

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departing is at hand.

At my first answering for myself, no man assisted me, but all forsook me. I pray God, that it may not be laid to their charges:

For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

They confess that they know God: but with the deeds they deny him and are abominable, and disobedient, and unto all good works discommendable.

and with the wholesome word which cannot be rebuked, that he which withstandeth may be ashamed, having no thing in you that he may dispraise.

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke, with all commanding. See that no man despise thee.

that they speak evil of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, showing all meekness unto all men.

not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost,

yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, though I be as I am, even Paul aged, and now in bonds for Jesus Christ's sake.

which in time past was to thee unprofitable: but now profitable both to thee and also to me,

not now as a servant: but above a servant, I mean a brother beloved, specially to me: but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and also in the Lord?

For he in no place taketh on him the angels: but the seed of Abraham taketh he on him.

And no man taketh honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

Wherefore, let us leave the doctrine pertaining to the beginning of a Christian man, and let us go unto perfection, and now no more lay the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,

And no man denieth but that which is less, receiveth blessing of him which is greater.

If now therefore perfection came by the priesthood of the Levites - for under that priesthood the people received the law - what needed it furthermore that another priest should rise, after the order of Melchizedek, and not after the order of Aaron?

Now no doubt, if the priesthood be translated, then of necessity must the law be translated also.

For the law made no thing perfect: but was an introduction of a better hope, by which hope, we draw nigh unto God.

Now hath he obtained a more excellent office, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better testament, which was made for better promises.

For if that first testament had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

For in rebuking them he saith, "Behold the days will come, saith the Lord, and I will finish upon the house of Israel, and upon the house of Judah, a new testament;

And they shall not teach, every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'know the Lord': For they shall know me, from the least to the most of them.

In that he saith a new testament, he hath abrogated the old. Now that which is disannulled and waxed old, is ready to vanish away.

Over the ark were the cherubims of glory shadowing the seat of grace. Of which things, we will not now speak particularly.

And for this cause is he the mediator of the new testament, that through death which chanced for the redemption of those transgressions that were in the first testament, they which were called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For the testament taketh authority when men are dead: For it is of no value as long as he that made it is alive.

And almost all things are, by the law, purged with blood, and without shedding of blood, is no remission.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places, that are made with hands, which are but similitudes of true things: but is entered into very heaven, for to appear now in the sight of God for us.

for then must he have often suffered since the world began: But now in the end of the world, hath he appeared once, to put sin to flight, by the offering up of himself.

For would not then those sacrifices have ceased to have been offered? Because that the offerers, once purged, should have had no more consciences of sins.

In sacrifices and sin offerings thou hast no lust.

and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."

And where remission of these things is, there is no more offering for sin.

by the new and living way, which he hath prepared for us, through the veil, that is to say by his flesh.

let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full faith sprinkled in our hearts, from an evil conscience, and washed in our bodies with pure water,

and let us not forsake the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the manner of some is: but let us exhort one another, and that so much the more, because ye see that the day draweth nigh.

For if we sin willingly after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins: