PHILIPPIANS
Philippians 1
1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Yahshua the Christ, to all the saints
in the Christ Yahshua which are at
2 Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father and [from] the Lord Yahshua the 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 Which hath begun a good work in you
will perform [it] until the day of Yahshua the 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 defence
and confirmation of the gospel ye all are partakers of my grace.
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of
Yahshua the Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and
[in] all judgment;
10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and
without offence till the day of the Christ,
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Yahshua the
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 the 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 of envy and strife, and some also of good
will:
16 The one preach the Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add
affliction to my bonds;
17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence
of the gospel.
18 What then? Notwithstanding, every way, whether in
pretence or in truth, the Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, yea,
and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the
supply of the Spirit of Yahshua the 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 the Christ shall
be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life or by death.
21 Therefore, to me to live [is] the Christ and to die [is] gain;
22 But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour,
and what I shall choose I know not,
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with
the Christ, which is far better,
24 But 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 rejoicing may be more abundant in Yahshua the Christ for me by my
coming to you again.
27 Only behave as it becometh the
gospel of the 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,
28 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:
29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of the 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.
1 If [there be] therefore any consolation in the Christ, if any comfort of
love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one
accord, of one mind.
3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory, but in
humility reckoning one another better than themselves.
4 Look not each one on his own things, but each one
also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in the Christ Yahshua,
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,
7 But made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of a servant and
was made in the likeness of mankind;
8 And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the stake.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above
every name:
10 That at the name of Yahshua every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and
in earth and under the earth,
11 And [that] every tongue should confess that Yahshua the Christ [is] Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.
12 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,
13 For it is God Which worketh
in you both to will and to do of [His] good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings,
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God; without rebuke in
the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the
world;
16 Holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of the Christ
that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in
vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I
joy and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the Lord Yahshua to send Timotheus 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 Yahshua the Christ's.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child with the father, he served
with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send 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 Also, 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.
26 For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because that ye had
heard that he had been sick:
27 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.
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 hold such in
reputation,
30 Because for the work of the Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his
life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you
[is] to me indeed not grievous, but [is] safety for you.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision:
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit and rejoice in
the Christ Yahshua and have no confidence in the flesh,
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh,
I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the tribe of
Benjamin, an Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is
in the law, blameless.
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for the Christ.
8 Yea verily indeed I count all things [as] loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of the Christ Yahshua my Lord, for Whom I have suffered the loss of
all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win the Christ
9 And be found in Him; not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law,
but that which is through the faith of the Christ, the righteousness which is of
God by faith;
10 That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of
His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death,
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow
after, if that I may possess that for which also I am possessed of the
Christ Yahshua.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have possessed [already], but [this] one thing [I
do], forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those
things which are before:
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in the
Christ Yahshua.
15 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.
16 Moreover, to what we have already come, let us walk by the same, let
us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye
have us for an ensample.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even
weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the stake of the Christ:
19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory
[is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour,
the Lord Yahshua the Christ,
21 Who shall change our vile body [to be] fashioned like unto His glorious
body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things
unto Himself.
1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my
joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved.
2 I beseech Euodias and beseech Syntyche,
that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
3 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.
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway;
[and] again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your moderation be known unto all people. The Lord [is] at hand.
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God,
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through the Christ Yahshua.
8 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.
9 Those things, which ye have learned and received and heard and seen in me,
do; and the God of peace shall be with you.
10 Moreover, I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your
caring for me hath flourished again, in which ye were indeed caring, but ye lacked
opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I learned, in whatsoever state I am,
[therewith] to be content:
12 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.
13 I can do all things through the Christ Which strengtheneth me.
14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye had
fellowship with my affliction.
15 Now, ye Philippians, know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I
departed from
16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity:
17 Not that I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your
account.
18 Now 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.
19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by
the Christ Yahshua.
20 Now unto God and our Father [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.
21 Salute every saint in the Christ Yahshua. The brethren which
are with me greet you.
22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.
23 The grace of our Lord Yahshua the Christ [be] with you all.