Read the New Testament in 24 Weeks
1 ¶ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who 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 who has begun a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.
7 ¶ Even as it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint 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 charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,
10 that ye may approve the best, that ye may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ,
11 being filled with 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 the Christ even out of envy and strife, but others also out of good will.
16 Some preach the Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add tribulation to my bonds,
17 but the others out of charity, knowing that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.
18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, and will even rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall become my saving health through your prayer and the nourishment 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 I do not know what to choose.
23 For I am in a strait between the 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 glorying in Jesus Christ may be more abundant by my coming to you again.
27 ¶ Only let your conversation be as is worthy of 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, unanimous, working 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 saving health and that of God.
29 For unto you it is granted regarding 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.
2 ¶ Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same charity, unanimous, minding the one thing.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in humility let each esteem others better than themselves,
4 with each one not looking to their own things, but also to the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,
7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men,
8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. {Gr. stauros – stake}
9 Therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.
12 ¶ Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always hearkened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own saving health with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 ¶ Do all things without murmurings and doubts,
15 that ye may be blameless and innocent, children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,
16 holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
17 And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause ye also have joy and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.
20 For I have no one likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
23 Therefore, I hope to send him presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
25 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 needs.
26 For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he had been sick
27 For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I sent him, therefore, the more carefully, that when ye see him again, ye may rejoice and that I may be the less sorrowful.
29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and esteem such
30 because for the work of the Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
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