      | ¶ | Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: | |
 | Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. | ||
| ¶ | I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, | |
 | Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, | ||
| For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; | ||
| 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: | ||
| 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. | ||
| For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. | ||
| And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment; | ||
| That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; | ||
| Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. | ||
| ¶ | But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; | |
| So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other [places]; | ||
| And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. | ||
| Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: | ||
| The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: | ||
| But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. | ||
| What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. | ||
| ¶ | For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, | |
| 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. | ||
| For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain. | ||
| But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. | ||
| For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: | ||
| Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you. | ||
| And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; | ||
| That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again. | ||
| ¶ | 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; | |
| 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. | ||
| For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; | ||
| Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear [to be] in me. |
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