If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Philippians
Chapter 1
001:001 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus
Christ, to all the
saints in
Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the
bishops
and deacons:
001:002 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and from
the Lord Jesus
Christ.
001:003 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
001:004 Always in every prayer of mine for you all
making request with
joy,
001:005 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first
day until
now;
001:006 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:
001:007 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.
001:008 For God is my record, how greatly I long after
you all in the
bowels of Jesus
Christ.
001:009 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet
more and more
in knowledge and in
all judgment;
001:010 That ye may approve things that are excellent;
that ye may be
sincere and without
offence till the day of Christ.
001:011 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness,
which are by
Jesus Christ, unto
the glory and praise of God.
001:012 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that
the things
which happened unto me
have fallen out rather unto the
furtherance of the gospel;
001:013 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all
the palace, and
in all other
places;
001:014 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing
confident by my
bonds, are much
more bold to speak the word without fear.
001:015 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and
strife; and some
also of good
will:
001:016 The one preach Christ of contention, not
sincerely, supposing
to add
affliction to my bonds:
001:017 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for
the defence
of the gospel.
001:018 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether
in pretence, or
in truth, Christ
is preached; and I therein do rejoice,
yea,
and will rejoice.
001:019 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation
through your
prayer, and the
supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
001:020 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.
001:021 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
001:022 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of
my labour:
yet what I shall choose
I wot not.
001:023 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a
desire to depart,
and to be with
Christ; which is far better:
001:024 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
001:025 And having this confidence, I know that I shall
abide and
continue with you all
for your furtherance and joy of faith;
001:026 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in
Jesus Christ for
me by my coming
to you again.
001:027 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;
001:028 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.
001:029 For unto you it is given in the behalf of
Christ, not only to
believe on
him, but also to suffer for his sake;
001:030 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and
now hear to
be in me.
002:001 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ,
if any
comfort of love, if any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any
bowels and mercies,
002:002 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having
the same love,
being of one
accord, of one mind.
002:003 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory;
but in
lowliness of mind let each
esteem other better than
themselves.
002:004 Look not every man on his own things, but every
man also on
the things of
others.
002:005 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
002:006 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be
equal with God:
002:007 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon
him the form
of a servant, and was
made in the likeness of men:
002:008 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and
became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross.
002:009 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a
name which is above
every name:
002:010 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in
heaven, and things in
earth, and things under the earth;
002:011 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is
Lord, to the glory of
God the Father.
002:012 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed,
not as in my
presence only, but
now much more in my absence, work out
your
own salvation with fear and
trembling.
002:013 For it is God which worketh in you both to will
and to do of
his good
pleasure.
002:014 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
002:015 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons
of God,
without rebuke, in the
midst of a crooked and perverse
nation,
among whom ye shine as
lights in the world;
002:016 Holding forth the word of life; that I may
rejoice in the day
of Christ, that
I have not run in vain, neither laboured
in
vain.
002:017 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and
service of
your faith, I joy, and
rejoice with you all.
002:018 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
002:019 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus
shortly unto
you, that I also may
be of good comfort, when I know
your
state.
002:020 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally
care for your
state.
002:021 For all seek their own, not the things which are
Jesus
Christ's.
002:022 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son
with the father,
he hath served
with me in the gospel.
002:023 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon
as I shall see
how it will go with
me.
002:024 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
002:025 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you
Epaphroditus, my
brother, and
companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but
your
messenger, and he that
ministered to my wants.
002:026 For he longed after you all, and was full of
heaviness,
because that ye had
heard that he had been sick.
002:027 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God
had mercy on
him; and not on him
only, but on me also, lest I should
have
sorrow upon sorrow.
002:028 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that,
when ye see him
again, ye may
rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
002:029 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all
gladness; and hold
such in
reputation:
002:030 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto
death, not
regarding his life, to
supply your lack of service toward me.
003:001 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To
write the same
things to you, to
me indeed is not grievous, but for you it
is
safe.
003:002 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware
of the
concision.
003:003 For we are the circumcision, which worship God
in the spirit,
and rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in
the
flesh.
003:004 Though I might also have confidence in the
flesh. If any other
man thinketh
that he hath whereof he might trust in the
flesh,
I more:
003:005 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of
Israel, of the
tribe of Benjamin,
an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching
the
law, a Pharisee;
003:006 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church;
touching the
righteousness which
is in the law, blameless.
003:007 But what things were gain to me, those I counted
loss for
Christ.
003:008 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss
for the
excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for
whom
I have suffered the loss of
all things, and do count them but
dung, that I may win Christ,
003:009 And be found in him, not having mine own
righteousness, which
is of the
law, but that which is through the faith of
Christ,
the righteousness which is
of God by faith:
003:010 That I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and
the fellowship
of his sufferings, being made conformable
unto
his death;
003:011 If by any means I might attain unto the
resurrection of the
dead.
003:012 Not as though I had already attained, either
were already
perfect: but I follow
after, if that I may apprehend that
for
which also I am apprehended of
Christ Jesus.
003:013 Brethren, I count not myself to have
apprehended: but this one
thing I
do, forgetting those things which are behind,
and
reaching forth unto those
things which are before,
003:014 I press toward the mark for the prize of the
high calling of
God in Christ
Jesus.
003:015 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus
minded: and
if in any thing ye be
otherwise minded, God shall reveal
even
this unto you.
003:016 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained,
let us walk by
the same rule, let
us mind the same thing.
003:017 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark
them which
walk so as ye have us
for an ensample.
003:018 (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:
003:019 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their
belly, and whose
glory is in their
shame, who mind earthly things.)
003:020 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence
also we look
for the Saviour, the
Lord Jesus Christ:
003:021 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like
unto his glorious
body, according to the working whereby he
is
able even to subdue all things
unto himself.
004:001 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed
for, my joy
and crown, so stand
fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
004:002 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that
they be of the
same mind in the
Lord.
004:003 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help
those women
which laboured with me
in the gospel, with Clement also,
and
with other my fellowlabourers,
whose names are in the book of
life.
004:004 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
004:005 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The
Lord is at
hand.
004:006 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by
prayer and
supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made
known
unto God.
004:007 And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall
keep your
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
004:008 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever
things are honest,
whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever
things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever
things are of good
report; if there be any virtue, and
if
there be any praise, think on
these things.
004:009 Those things, which ye have both learned, and
received, and
heard, and seen in
me, do: and the God of peace shall be
with
you.
004:010 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at
the last your
care of me hath
flourished again; wherein ye were
also
careful, but ye lacked
opportunity.
004:011 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have
learned, in
whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.
004:012 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to
abound: every
where and in all
things I am instructed both to be full and
to
be hungry, both to abound and
to suffer need.
004:013 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
004:014 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did
communicate
with my
affliction.
004:015 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the
beginning of the
gospel, when I
departed from Macedonia, no church
communicated
with me as concerning
giving and receiving, but ye only.
004:016 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again
unto my
necessity.
004:017 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit
that may
abound to your
account.
004:018 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having
received of
Epaphroditus the
things which were sent from you, an odour
of
a sweet smell, a sacrifice
acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
004:019 But my God shall supply all your need according
to his riches
in glory by Christ
Jesus.
004:020 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
004:021 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren
which are
with me greet you.
004:022 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are
of Caesar's
household.
004:023 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.