Philippians 4

Wycliffe Bible

4 Therefore, my brethren most dear-worthy and most desired, my joy and my crown, so stand ye in the Lord, most dear brethren.

² I pray Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, to understand the same thing in the Lord.

³ Also I pray and thee, german fellow [Also and I pray thee, german even-fellow], help thou those women that travailed with me in the gospel, with Clement and other mine helpers, whose names be in the book of life.

⁴ Joy ye in the Lord evermore; again I say, joy ye.

⁵ Be your patience known to all men [Be your temperance, or patience, known to all men]; the Lord is nigh.

⁶ Be ye nothing busy [Be nothing busy], but in all prayer and beseeching, with doing of thankings, be your askings known at God.

⁷ And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus.

⁸ From henceforth, brethren, whatever things be sooth, whatever things chaste, whatever things just, whatever things holy, whatever things able to be loved^[a], whatever things of good fame, if any virtue, if any praising of discipline, think ye (on) these things,

⁹ that also ye have learned, and taken, and heard, and seen in me. Do ye these things, and God of peace shall be with you.

¹⁰ But I joyed greatly in the Lord, that sometime afterward ye flowered again to feel for me [for sometime afterward ye again flourished for to feel for me], as also ye feeled. But ye were occupied,

¹¹ I say not as for need, for I have learned to be sufficient in which things I am. [I say not as for need, for I have learned, in which things I am, sufficient to be.]

¹² And I know also how to be lowed, I know also how to have plenty. Every where and in all things I am taught to be filled, and to hunger, and to abound, and to suffer need.^[b]

¹³ I may all things in him that comforteth me.

¹⁴ Nevertheless ye have done well, communing to my tribulation.

¹⁵ For ye, Philippians, know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communed with me in reason of thing given and taken, but ye alone.

¹⁶ Which sent to Thessalonica once and twice also into use to me. [For and to Thessalonica ye sent once and twice into use to me.]

¹⁷ Not for I seek gift, but I require fruit abounding in your reason. [Not for I seek gift, but I require, or seek again, fruit abounding in your reason.]

¹⁸ For I have all things, and abound; I am filled^[c] with those things taken of Epaphroditus, which ye sent into the odour of sweetness, a suitable sacrifice [a covenable host, or sacrifice], pleasing to God.

¹⁹ And my God fill all your desire, by his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. [Forsooth my God full-fill all your desire, after his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.]

²⁰ But to God and our Father be glory into worlds of worlds. Amen.

²¹ Greet ye well every holy man in Christ Jesus. Those brethren that be with me, greet you well.

²² All holy men greet you well, most soothly they that be of the emperor's house [most soothly those that be of Caesar's house].

²³ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.