Philippians 1-2

Philippians 1

¹Paul and Timotheus, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the overseers and ministers;

²grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,

⁴constantly in my every supplication, making the supplication for you all with joy,

⁵because of your fellowship with the gospel, from the first day until now;

⁶having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

⁷as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have *me* in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

⁸For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus.

⁹And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,

¹⁰that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

¹¹being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.

¹²But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,

¹³so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;

¹⁴and that the most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God fearlessly.

¹⁵Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.

¹⁶These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the glad tidings;

¹⁷but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.

¹⁸What is it then? at any rate, in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, yea, also I will rejoice;

¹⁹for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

²⁰according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death.

²¹For for me to live is Christ, and to die gain;

²²but if to live in flesh is my lot, this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.

²³But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, for it is very much better,

²⁴but remaining in the flesh is more necessary for your sakes;

²⁵and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in faith;

²⁶that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus through me by my presence again with you.

²⁷Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

²⁸and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

²⁹because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

³⁰having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.

Philippians 2

¹If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

²fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

³let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

⁴regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also.

⁵For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;

⁶who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;

⁷but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in the likeness of men;

⁸and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.

⁹Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings,

¹¹and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to God the Father's glory.

¹²So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

¹³for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.

¹⁴Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,

¹⁵that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,

¹⁶holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

¹⁷But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.

¹⁸In like manner do *ye* also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

¹⁹But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that *I* also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

²⁰For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

²¹For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

²²But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

²³Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

²⁴but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall soon come;

²⁵but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

²⁶since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

²⁷for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

²⁸I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that *I* might be the less sorrowful.

²⁹Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour;

³⁰because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.