THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS 1

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1 Paul and Timotheus the servants of Jesus Christ to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi with the bishops and deacons ⚑

2 Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ ⚑

3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you ⚑

4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy ⚑

5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now ⚑

6 Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ ⚑

7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel ye all are partakers of my grace ⚑

8 For God is my record how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ ⚑

9 And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment ⚑

10 That ye may approve things that are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ ⚑

11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God ⚑

12 But I would ye should understand brethren that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel ⚑

13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places ⚑

14 And many of the brethren in the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear ⚑

15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife and some also of good will ⚑

16 The one preach Christ of contention not sincerely supposing to add affliction to my bonds ⚑

17 But the other of love knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel ⚑

18 What then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I there in do rejoice yea and will rejoice ⚑

19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ ⚑

20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed but that with all boldness as always so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death ⚑

21 For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain ⚑

22 But if I live in the flesh this is the fruit of my labour yet what I shall choose I wot not ⚑

23 For I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better ⚑

24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you ⚑

25 And having this confidence I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith ⚑

26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again ⚑

27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ that whether I come and see you or 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 ⚑

28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God ⚑

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 ⚑

30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear to be in me ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain